The EFCC has an inherent duty to scrutinize all complaints that it receives carefully, no matter how carefully crafted by the complaining party, and be bold enough to counsel such complainant to seek appropriate/lawful means to resolve their disputes. Alas! The EFCC is not a debt recovery agency and should refrain from being used as such --- by overzealous and/or unscrupulous characters for the recovery of debts arising from simple contracts, loans, or purely civil transactions”. Furthermore, both sections 8 (2) of the administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 and 9 (2) of the administration of Criminal Justice Law No. 8 of 2019 of Sokoto State, prohibited the arrest of any suspect merely on a civil wrong or breach of contract. It is also trite law that although the rights of personal liberty and freedom of a citizen of this country can be deprived temporarily in appropriate circumstances, the ending phrase of section 35 (1) of the 1999 CFRN {as amended} contained that the deprivation, if must be done, shall be in accordance with a procedure permitted by law. The cumulative effect of section 35 (4) and (5) (a) of the 1999 CFRN {as amended}, is to the effect that any person who is arrested or detained in accordance with subsection (1) (c) of the same section 35 of the CFRN, must be taken to Court within one day of his detention if there is a Court of competent jurisdiction within a radius of 40 kilometers. 13

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