Robert’s family, in a petition to the leadership of the House, is seeking justice in the abuse and violation of his rights. The petition alleged that the arrest and detention of Robert was part of a larger plot by the anti-graft agency to implicate the former President. While faulting the allegations against Robert, the family claimed he did a job for the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), which was still indebted to his company. The petition reads: “Mr. Azibaola Robert is the managing director of ‘Kakatar Engineering and Construction Company Limited’, and its sister company, ‘One Plus Holdings Limited’. ‘’He is a cousin to ex- President Goodluck Jonathan”. “Recently, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested Mr. Robert for alleged $40 million contract, which the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) awarded to ‘One Plus Holdings Limited’ for the surveillance and security of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta. “The ONSA is at present indebted to the company (One Plus Holdings Limited) to about $4 million, being final payment for the surveillance/oil pipeline security contract. “Mr. Robert was arrested and taken into EFCC custody on March 23, 2016, and has spent over a month in EFCC detention, without any formal charge. Preceding his arrest, however, was a raid on his house by armed mobile policemen who in the process subjected his wife and young children to the most dehumanising and traumatic ordeal. “In EFCC custody, Mr. Robert was denied access to his family, lawyers and medicare and repeatedly bullied, harassed, threatened and psychologically traumatised by EFCC operatives, and no formal charge brought against him. “Curiously, his interrogators have told him to say something to finger and/or implicate former President Jonathan, his cousin, as a ‘front’ or beneficiary of the surveillance/security contract; else he would face the “Dasuki treatment” and rot away in EFCC custody.”]]>