The oil marketers, who are respectively the Managing Director and General Manager of Fargo Petroleum and Gas Limited, and who were formerly declared wanted by the EFCC have frowned at the measures taken against them by the EFCC.

According to the two oil marketers, Messrs OluwaSeun Ogunbanbo and Habila Teck, it was very bad of the anti-graft agency to have declared them wanted without waiting for the determination of their pending suit, praying to the court to vacate the order as they were merely less than an hour late to the trial.

In a statement by counsel to the oil marketers, Prince Ajibola Oluyede, the EFCC action was contrary to the provision of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which presumes innocence until proven guilty.

He said the commission was aware of the fact that their clients have laid bare facts before the court stating the circumstance that led to their late arrival in court on the 25th of June, 2013 in a motion filed the following day.

He also said that the defendants’ presence in court room on 25 June, 2013 confirmed the fact that they were merely delayed on their way to court rather.