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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has mapped out fresh strategies on how to arrest the outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, SUNDAY PUNCH findings have revealed.
The commission, which rose from an emergency meeting on Friday, said it had also set up two teams to verify and ascertain Bankole's properties in Lagos and Ogun states.
All unit heads at the Abuja headquarters of the EFCC attended the meeting.
SUNDAY PUNCH findings revealed that the teams were constituted and their members asked to go to the states immediately for the assignment.
They were also mandated to ensure that all Bankole's properties in the two states are properly identified as this could aid the prosecution of the Speaker. Our correspondent gathered that the EFCC chair, Farida Waziri, vowed to detain Bankole on Monday.
A reliable source at the EFCC who did not want to be mentioned said, "He has boxed himself to a corner. Now, he cannot afford to be on the defensive any longer. If he had honoured our invitation last week and come to the office himself, we would not have detained him. The maximum time he would have spent with us would have been one hour. But now that he wants to do it his way, he cannot escape detention. We are going to detain him.
"It is obvious that we have given him a long rope and we are eagerly waiting for him to honour his words that he will come to us on Monday by 12pm. If he does not come to us, we will go to him. What happened on Friday will not repeat itself."
Following the commission's resolve, surveillance around the Speaker and members of his family has been stepped up on Saturday.
The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said, "We got information that he was planning to leave the country so we put him on our watch-list and he remains on it till he turns himself in or we arrest him."
Source: Sunday Punch