I Will Not Be Silenced By Govt- Shehu Sani Speaks From Detention
Civil rights activist and former senator representing Kaduna Central Zone in the 8th National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has stated that government cannot use alleged trumped-up charges of extortion to silence him from talking about the ills of the country under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
In a statement from detention, which was made available to journalists, Friday, Sani insisted that the allegation of extortion against him “is baseless, factless, unfounded, hollow and unsubstantial.”
The senator, who was accused by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of allegedly extorting the Chairman of ASD Motors, Alhaji Sani Dauda, of the sum of $25,000, noted: “It is a scripted stream of mischievous concoctions and utter fabrications, using a puppet state agent, all aimed at splashing faeces and mud on me.
“The extortion allegation is nothing, but a wholesale falsehood, packaged in a phantom anti-graft facade to taint, stain and mute me. That shall never happen if I am alive. “I have made my statement and provided all my facts against their package of lies and I demand the EFCC to make public all the sheets of our statements and supporting documents for the world to see.”
According to Sani: “My detention is unfair, unjust, prearranged and politically motivated. Alhaji Sani Dauda and his hidden sponsors have not been able to provide any proof of their allegations. “I’m unjustly incarcerated on the ground of an arranged two-page petition backed with no evidential or documentary proof. Fascism thrives in frame-up of its critics.
“They claim extortion and here they are closing my bank accounts, searching my houses and offices and demanding I declare my assets, which I have already done at the CCB last year when I left the senate.
“Frame-up cannot silence me. I have never ever met with the CJN or any Judge or Judges or ever called directly or indirectly to offer to give or to give directly or indirectly any form of gratification from Dauda.
”He continued: “I have never, ever discussed with Dauda on any form of bribe or gratification to be given to any Judge or any EFCC official. The bribe story is phantom and fake imaginative work of fiction, cruelly crafted to smear me, to frame me and to justify my persecution.
“The bribe story is a heap of blatant lies and outright falsehood concocted and fabricated, using a front and the EFCC to premiere a state drama. Dauda is a barely educated front for a state mission.“Criminalising me or framing me will not silence me, bend me or compromise me.”
