A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris to schedule a new date to enable him appear before his office for ‘facts finding discussion.’
The IGP had in a letter dated August 20, 2018, invited Fani-Kayode to appear before his office on August 28, 2018, but the ex-minister, through his lawyers in another letter addressed to the IGP yesterday, said the date should be shifted to September 4 or 5, 2018, as the IG’s letter got to him on August 24, 2018.
The letter reads in part, “This request is necessitated by the fact that our client already has earlier scheduled programmes that borders on some urgent and crucial matters already lined up for this week including the on-going Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Conference, which Conference our Client is participating and hosting a number of delegates. These might make it difficult or rather impossible for him to honour the invitation on the scheduled date.”
“Recall that your letter of invitation is dated 20th August 2018; however, same was delivered to our Client only on the 24th day of August 2018. The said letter has requested that our Client appears before a named officer on the 28th day of August, 2018, for what you described as a ‘fact finding discussion.’
It added that the invitation letter from the IGP appeared vague and ambiguous as it did not “mention the name(s) and person(s) complaining against our Client and on what particular subject matter his (Fani-Kayode’s) presence is required.”
