Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has reacted to the court ruling discharging and acquitting of all criminal charges levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Fani-kayode thanked God for giving him his life back after 18 “long and difficult years”.
On Tuesday, the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, acquitted and discharged Fani-Kayode of medical forgery charges brought against him by the EFCC.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Olubumni Abike-Fadipe, held that the no-case submission filed by Fani-Kayode’s counsel proved that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against him.
As a result, the court ruled that the former minister had no case to answer regarding the allegations.
EFCC had dragged Fani-Kayode before Justice Abike-Fadipe on a 12 count charge for alleged use of forged medical report(s), which he tendered before Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, where he was being prosecuted by the EFCC for an alleged N4.9billion fraud.
But, the court discharged and acquitted the former aviation minister of all the charges.
Reacting to the judgement in a post on Facebook, Fani-Kayode says, “It was a great day and a great victory in court today.
“The Lagos State High Court has discharged me of the last and final set of criminal charges that were preferred against me by the EFCC and I give thanks to God.
“Finally, after 18 long and difficult years of constant and consecutive criminal cases in no less than four separate courts in different parts of the country, I have won the last one and it is all over.
“After 18 years I finally have my life back and can focus on my family and loved ones.
“Perhaps more than any other Nigerian living or dead I know what the true meaning of “lawfare” is and like Rev. Martin Luther King (jnr.) once proudly said I can finally scream the following words from the top of the roof:
“FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY WE ARE FREE AT LAST.” To God alone be the glory.”
