A Constitutional Lawyer has rubbished the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over its raid and subsequent arrest and detention of the INNOSON Boss, Chief Dr. Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma who is now set to file yet another suit claiming 200 billion naira both against the EFCC and the GTBank. This is contained in his recent article titled "INNOSON/GTB TANGO: IS THE EFCC RACING AGAINST THE LAW?".
Part of the article reads:

"The dispositive issues the present engagement focuses on are the patently unlawful arrest of the INNOSON Boss and the hiatuses that adorn the face of the charges which are purported to have been brought against him before the High Court of Lagos State of Nigeria. After a clinical survey of these identified issues accentuated for consideration, the writers will examine the impact of the outcome of the said two issues on the case which the EFCC proposes to establish against the INNOSON Boss. In paddling the canoe of this enterprise, we shall strictly be guided by the jurisprudential beacons offered by both scholastic and juristic authorities, which in their aggregate, represent the law as it stands in Nigeria today."

END:
What is more, all this lapses betray an institution of the state that is regrettably on an unholy mission without the slightest support of the law. That the EFCC knows or ought to know of the existence of legal disputes involving GTB/INNOSON all of which are now pending before the Supreme Court speaks eloquently to the sacrilegious disdain in which the Commission [EFCC] holds the proceedings of the courts. It becomes most worrisome when it is remembered that the Commission is a creature of a Statute validly made by the Legislature. Indeed, abuse of prosecutorial powers can have no better example, Mohammed Abacha v. State (2002) 5 NWLR (Pt 761) 437. This nauseating proclivity has been roundly condemned time and again by our superior courts, Connelly v. Director of Public Prosecutions (1964) A.C. 1254, 1301, 1302; (1964) 48 Cr. App. R. 168, 268269, 219, 280.
Setting the law in motion against a man for reasons that available documents accompanying the charge cannot explain and sustain has been frowned on by the Courts, R. v. Rutland and Sorrell (1945) 1 All E.R. 85, 87. Of old, it has been said that the judicial power which is conferred on the Courts is intended to be used in deciding issues in genuine cases or controversies. This powers of courts to prevent abuse of process includes the power to safeguard an accused person from oppression and prejudice such as would result if he is sent to trial pursuant to an information which discloses no offence with which he is in any way linked, Ikomi v State (1986) 3 NWLR (Pt.28) 340. This cannot be otherwise since controversies are settled so that no accused person will be oppressed either directly or indirectly through act of prosecution; if not we shall have persecution in place of prosecution, Okoli v. The State (1992) 6 NWLR (pt. 247) 381.

It is for this reason that an accused person, despite the power to file indictment on an information, should not be indicted to face trial that from the outset it was clear he should not face, Abacha v. State (supra); Egbe v. The State (1980) 1 NCR, (ALR) 341; Enuma v. The State (1997) 1 NWLR (Pt. 479) 115, 121, 122. It has now come to light that the underlying transaction forming the springboard of the charges which the EFCC seeks to press against the INNOSON Boss is that of Letters of Credit of which its undulating nuances and somewhat windy complexities have been neatly and comprehensively delimited and thrashed by the Supreme Court, Akinsanya v. U.B.A. Ltd (supra). The EFCC should humble itself and go back into the repository of law reports preparatory to its filing any criminal charge whose root is traceable to the intricate web of complex commercial transaction which Letters of Credit somewhat epitomizes. That way, a monumental embarrassment of international dimension would be spared us. Little wonder then that in rounding up the debate of Senators who took turn to lampoon the uniformed mission of the EFCC at INNOSON’s residence, the Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Olubukola Saraki aptly concluded:

“I think this does not speak well for the country. How would a private commercial transaction now become the focus of EFCC? I think this is the area where our focus should be. I don’t think you have heard where FBI interferes in the affairs of Citibank and Fords Motors, or the financial crimes agency in the United Kingdom interfering in an issue between Barclay’s Bank and a customer. Honestly, we are just making a mockery of ourselves and we really need to be able to do the right things.”[emphasis supplied by the writer]

Last word: the banker/customer relationship between GTB/INNOSON has lured the EFCC into a dangerous race against the extant laws of the land.
We find here a convenient place to stop.

See and read the full article here: http://www.odogwublog.com/2017/12/innosongtb-tango-is-efcc-racing-against.html

Bang de de Deng!!!


That's good. But non of my business.

But the ugly buffoon in the picture has somechin to say

Oga Inno don’t mind them , as long as there is sunshine truth will always come out but please watch your head and people around you

200billion

Good!

Welcome development, he who laugh last,........

We warned them, #boycotting Gtbcontinues#