Obanikoro released from detention by EFCC

           Former minister of state for defense

         Musiliu Obanikoro has been released from detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), The Punch reports Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has agreed to make refunds of the money he allegedly collected from the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA) It quoted a source as saying on Friday, November 4th that “the EFCC just released Senator Obanikoro around 5pm. He is on his way home now.” The Punch had earlier reported that the Obanikoro had met all his bail conditions on Thursday, November 3 night and the commission was processing his release. Earlier reports emerged that Senator Obanikoro had agreed to return N480 million to the federal government in an undertaking he signed. The former minister who returned from the United States and willingly submitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had cooperated well with the anti-graft agency. Meanwhile, EFCC chairman Ibrahim Magu has alleged that some forces not comfortable with his campaign to rescue the nation from the vice grip of corruption are plotting to ruin his reputation. Magu in a statement on Thursday, November 3, through the spokesperson for the anti-graft agency, said those behind the plot were already spreading campaigns of misinformation in the social media intended to impugn his integrity and set him against certain interests both within and outside of government, Premium Times reports.