By Adesina Soyooye
Dr Olu Agunloye, Minister of Power and Steel under the President Olusegun Obasanjo Government, has been remanded in Prison custody.
Agunloye, also, a former Corp Marshall, was sent to Kuje Prison, Wednesday, by a Federal High Court, Abuja.
An associate and confidant of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Agunloye is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegations of a six billion Naira fraud in the Mambilla Power Project.
Brought before the Federal High Court, Dr Agunloye pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him.
But the Honourable Justice Donatus Okorowu remanded him in Prison Custody pending when argument for his bail will be entertained.
The EFCC had earlier declared him wanted for not honouring their invitation. But Soyinka had faulted the anti-graft agency for declaring a man who was not in hiding wanted.
Thereafter, Agunloye reported to the EFCC, and was granted bail on self-recognizance and released to his Lawyer, Adeola Adedipe, SAN.
However, on Wednesday when he was finally arraigned, he was sent to Kuje Correctional Center pending when he would be granted bail.
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