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Court Hears Tompolo’s Suit Against FG June 17 by Nobody: 12:55pm On May 20, 2016 |
Former Niger Delta militant leader, Government
Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo
Justice Mojisola Olatoregun-Ishola of a Federal
High Court in Lagos has fixed June 17, 2016 to hear
the suit filed by a former Niger Delta militant leader,
Government Ekpemulopo, alias Tompolo, against
the Federal Government.
Tompolo, who has been declared wanted since
February 12, 2016 by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, is seeking court’s protection
against prosecution for an alleged fraud of N45.9bn.
The EFCC filed 40 counts against him and nine
others before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the same
court, but since late last year when the charges
were filed, all efforts to make Tompolo appear to
answer the charges had proved abortive.
He had spurned a summons issued on him to
appear in court on February 14, 2016, making the
judge to issue a bench warrant against him and
ordered his arrest.
The arrest warrant was later re-affirmed on
February 8, after the judge dismissed Tompolo’s
application seeking to set aside the summons
issued on him.
He subsequently went on appeal and asked Justice
Buba to not only stay further proceedings in his
case but to disqualify himself from the case.
Meanwhile, the EFCC declared him wanted in an
advertorial on February 12 and subsequently
obtained an order to seize all his known assets
pending when he would yield himself to the court.
After an endless wait, the EFCC was later forced to
separate Tompolo’s trial from that of his nine co-
accused persons.
In the suit filed through his lawyer, Ebun-Olu
Adegboruwa, before Justice Olatoregun-Ishola,
Tompolo is, however, seeking an order restraining
the Federal Government and its agencies from
further proceeding with the N45.9bn fraud charges
filed against him.
Joined as respondents in the suit are the Federal
Government, the EFCC, the Inspector-General of
Police, the Chief of Army Staff, the Chief of Naval
Staff and the Chief of Air Staff.
His counsel, Adegboruwa, is contending that
sections 221 and 306 of the Administration of
Criminal Justice Act, 2015, which prohibits him from
seeking a stay of proceedings in his trial, were
infringing on his constitutional rights to fair hearing.
Tompolo is urging the court to not only nullify
sections 221 and 306 of the ACJA but to also
restrain the Federal Government, the EFCC and the
IGP from deploying those sections of the law
against him.
Adegboruwa argued that sections 221 and 306 were
in conflict with Section 36 of the Constitution which
guarantees his client’s right to fair hearing. - Punch
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Re: Court Hears Tompolo’s Suit Against FG June 17 by Nobody: 1:14pm On May 20, 2016 |
See eyes |
Re: Court Hears Tompolo’s Suit Against FG June 17 by kossyablaze(m): 1:15pm On May 20, 2016 |
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