The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has embarked on a manhunt to fish out the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu after his sudden appearance on Thursday evening at the Ikeja GRA residence of the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi.
According to impeccable sources, security agents in Lagos and Abuja have been making frantic efforts to find out his whereabouts in a bid to arrest him.
Ribadu had arrived the house of the late legal icon, at about 6:45 pm Thursday in company of his lawyer Mr. Femi Falana to pay his last respects and to condole the family of the deceased.
As at the time of filing in this report, neither Ribadu nor his lawyer could be found when our correspondent visited the Lagos Chamber of Mr. Femi Falana, located on Adekunle Fajuyi Road near the Ikeja GRA.
Weekly Trust learnt that the Lagos-based lawyer has travelled out of the state yesterday.
Specifically, the Code of Conduct Bureau had earlier declared war on Ribadu over alleged false assets declaration.
Ribadu, who was sent on course at the Nigerian Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, was later demoted from Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) to Assistant Commissioner of Police and subsequently dismissed by the police authorities for insurbordination.
The manhunt for Ribadu, it was gathered, took the security agents to Fawehinmi’s residence in Lagos and later to some other places where they thought he could possibly hid.
The police, Immigration Service and State Security Service (SSS) personnel at the airport and land borders, Weekly Trust gathered, were directed to spread their dragnet and arrest Ribadu.