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EFCC Arresting Commissioners, AG Is Unconstitutional, Says Ekiti Govt by NewsAfriq: 2:29pm On Oct 03, 2017
The Ekiti state Government has condemned the arrest of its commissioners by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission describing it as unconstitutional.

The Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo, and the Accountant General of the state, Yemisi Owolabi, were picked by the EFCC for allegedly misapplying the state’s resources.

The Attorney General of the state, Mr. Kolapo Kolade, described the action of the EFCC as unconstitutional and a display of what he called executive lawlessness, while speaking in a press conference in Abuja on Monday.

He said a subsisting court order was issued in 2016 by a Federal High Court in a suit FHC/AD/CS/32/2016 in which the EFCC was a defendant.

The order, according to him, barred the EFCC from “arresting, detaining or investigating any person or persons whether past or present officials in the Ekiti State Government without any report of indictment by the Ekiti State House of Assembly.”

The order of the court, he added, was.....http://newsafriq.com/2017/10/efcc-arresting-commissioners-ag-unconstitutional/
Re: EFCC Arresting Commissioners, AG Is Unconstitutional, Says Ekiti Govt by biacan(f): 2:30pm On Oct 03, 2017
Everything about this government is unconstitutional
Re: EFCC Arresting Commissioners, AG Is Unconstitutional, Says Ekiti Govt by yarimo(m): 2:44pm On Oct 03, 2017
Nigeria constitution is above any state constitution, and EFCC are operating under nigeria constitution .

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