By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: Detained Director General of the phantom Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi has accused the police of detaining him beyond the scope of the court order used to justify his custody, and has now demanded that the House of Representatives question him at a public sitting rather than the closed-door session the Ad-hoc Committee is reportedly planning.
In a statement issued in Abuja late Tuesday, his lawyer, Prince Ademola Oyedokun, Esq. of Ademolaw Toye Law Firm, said his client welcomed the House inquiry into the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, insisting that “the National Assembly holds its mandate from the Nigerian people and has the constitutional power to establish the facts of this matter.”
Oyedokun said Adeyemi had never refused to appear before the Committee, noting that his client has remained in police custody without being produced before the Committee or any court.
He said the police told the Committee that Adeyemi Mathew is held pursuant to a court order, but insisted that the order in question, a bench warrant, only authorised his arrest and did not authorise his detention.
