The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday detained a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, following his arrival from the UAE.
Adoke who returned earlier on Thursday, was detained by the anti-graft agency after he was handed over to the EFCC by international police organisation, INTERPOL.
The former AGF was taken into custody by the EFCC for his alleged involvement in the granting of the Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 245 to Shell and ENI.
This comes shortly after the former AGF returned to the country from Dubai in company with INTERPOL officers aboard Emirates Airlines Flight 785.
The aircraft departed the Emirati commercial capital at about 8 am Nigerian time and touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja after about eight hours.
Adoke was, thereafter, whisked away to the INTERPOL office in Abuja after which he was transferred to the EFCC office also in the nation’s capital.
The former AGF is facing charges bordering on alleged abuse of office and money laundering with respect to the granting of the Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 245 to Shell and ENI filed against him and four others by the EFCC on behalf of the Nigerian Government.
But in a statement on Thursday, his lawyer Mike Ozekhome, SAN, said his client had been released and was already on his way to Nigeria.
According to Ozekhome, the former AGF was not extradited but was set free by the police in Dubai after he said he wanted to go home and “solve his problems back at home”.
He said, “Adoke is not extradited by the Nigerian government because there is no reason for that … he is innocent of the allegations against him. Adoke has not done anything wrong.”
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