The associates and family of the former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, are intensifying efforts to raise N100m to release him from the detention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

A family source said they had taken a decision that the former minister would not spend another week in the detention facility of the commission.

the ex-minister flew into the country on Monday last week and has since been held by the EFCC, whose operatives have been interrogating him in connection with N4.7bn traced to Silva Mcnanamara, a company in which, the commission says he has interests.

The family is concerned about his health and are not ready to see him still in detention beyond Tuesday this week. The man’s life is more important than the money they are asking him questions about,”

The family source confirmed that the commission had given a condition to the former minister to raise N100m to get an administrative bail.

“If that would be the only condition to see him out of detention for now, we are making efforts to raise that. You know the situation of the country now, but no sacrifice is too much to make him a free man again,”

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