A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday assented to a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to seize all but one of the assets belonging to the former General Officer Commanding, GOC, of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.

The presiding judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba gave this order after Tompolo again failed to appear in court to honour a summon on an alleged fraudulent land contract for the construction of the Nigerian Maritime University.

It would be recalled that the anti-graft agency had on Wednesday filed a motion before the court, seeking to freeze Tompolo’s assets. This was after the commission declared him wanted in a newspaper advertorial, following two bench warrants issued against him by the court.

The EFCC is accusing Tompolo and nine others of diverting and converting N46bn belonging to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA. But Tompolo has denied the allegation, accusing the Federal Government of coming after him because he refused to join the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

On Friday, counsel to the EFCC, Mr. Festus Keyamo told the court that the efforts by all security agencies to arrest Tompolo had yielded no result, as they were yet to get hold of the first accused person.

His words, “The accused person Tompolo failed to appear again and we brought and application for the seizure of all his properties as provided for by law.

“If an accused person continues to abscond from court and conceals himself from court after a warrant of arrest has been issued, he should be auctioned by the federal government. That’s what we have done and the court granted our prayers to seize his properties.

“We are going to separate the charge; we are going to keep his own until we get him or until we have auctioned his properties. We are just going to separate them so that he will stand alone from the other accused persons, because he is delaying the trial of the other accused persons.”

The presiding judge consequently granted the application for the EFCC to “seize all the properties belonging to Tompolo except all properties of Global WestVessel Specialist Ltd”.


http://dailypost.ng/2016/02/19/court-grants-efccs-request-to-seize-tompolos-properties/

Ndi Igbo si na "Nwata etoghi eto wara ogodo, ikuku kuwe oburu ya na ogodo ya".

I like this Judge...

IPOB Youths, Your adopted Son Don enter zoo!

Yes,freeze his bank acct,hunger go finish tompolo

FG is playing with fire,this move is ill informed and will escalate the already volatile situation in ijaw commnities destablising the entire warri metropolis

this is getting more interesting by the day. I see this thing ending one way and one way only: Tompolo will loose. I mean you can't wrestle with the federal government and win even if your name is Government

For those ready to die for Tompolo...we are waiting.

Let him bring it on.

This govt will not condone criminals or criminality.

If they want to blow pipeline in Gbaramatu, they can start now. We shall help them to degrade the environment the more.

No one has a monopoly of madness.

Good.

NOTHING GO HAPPEN

nothing go happen, na so them take talk say make PMB try arrest their fraud man CALLED KANU, with all the treat and chest beating waiting happen today? no one i repeat, NO ONE IS BIGGER THAN THE FEDERAL GOVT

Hmmmmm Niger delta militants may rise again oooo

I dont usually like land grabing, but if Tompolo can sale a village land for 300 billion Naira, then land grabbing is the way to go.
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Please somebody should call me when this land appreciates.

yeye

lalasticlala

NgeneUkwenu:
I like this Judge...

IPOB Youths, Your adopted Son Don enter zoo!

May the good Lord impact sense in you... Amen

With PMB everything is possible. this is not Jona

psquaret:
nothing go happen, na so them take talk say make PMB try arrest their fraud man CALLED KANU, with all the treat and chest beating waiting happen today? no one i repeat, NO ONE IS BIGGER THAN THE FEDERAL GOVT

nothing go happen

ENDTIMELIFE:
Hmmmmm Niger delta militants may rise again oooo

ENDTIMELIFE:
Hmmmmm Niger delta militants may rise again oooo

The same way dokubo and his wife rose after their empty threats of making Nigeria to burn, if Jonah losses.

All but one? Why exception to that one

lalasticlala

good move

I still stand with the Government of Government Tompolo

Hmmm

Hmmmmm

its well

912:
this is getting more interesting by the day. I see this thing ending one way and one way only: Tompolo will loose. I mean you can't wrestle with the federal government and win even if your name is Government

One question: how old are you?

NgeneUkwenu:
I like this Judge...

IPOB Youths, Your adopted Son Don enter zoo!

How low can a person sink? Definitely not lower than this... May God have mercy on your soul...

The FG is biting more than she can chew, the way to go is to make peace especially @ this turbulent economy down turn affecting our country, who know "Tompolo" returning back to the creeks will bring more problem to the country, especially now dat the FG cannot do without oil. or is the FG prepared to use income frm groundnut, cocoa, sugar cane, tomatoes, rubber, solid minerials etc to run the economy.

uchedydy:
I dont usually like land grabing, but if Tompolo can sale a village land for 300 billion Naira, then land grabbing is the way to go.
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Please somebody should call me when this land appreciates.

13 billion