₦airaland Forum

Court Dismisses
Kwankwaso’s Suit To Stop
Arrest By EFCC

A Kano high court sitting in
Gezawa yesterday dismissed an
application filed by former
governor of the state, Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso seeking to
discontinue a suit earlier filed to
restrain the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) from arresting him.
With this judgment, the EFCC is
free of any pending or emerging
order restraining her from
arresting Kwankwaso for allege
mismanagement of public funds
while serving as Kano State
governor.
The court has also directed the
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to
investigate counsel to Kwankwaso
for alleged misrepresentation and
overzealousness in the suit.
Kwankwaso’s lawyer, Barrister
Okechuwku Nwaeze, recently
filed an ex parte motion
restraining the EFCC from
arresting his client Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso for an alleged
mismanagement of the state’s
pensions funds.
But counsel to the applicant had
against his earlier prayers filed
another motion seeking the court
to discontinue the suit, but
without the knowledge of the
EFCC.
The latter motion may not be
unconnected to a statement from
Kwankwaso just after his lawyer
filed the case, debunking
knowledge of Okechukwu’s
argument.
Counsel to Kwankwaso had told
the court that EFCC had mounted
surveillance on the Abuja
residence of his client in a move
to arrest him, a development, he
maintained threatened
Kwankwaso’s fundamental
human right of freedom of
movement.
Okechukwu claimed that EFCC’s
alleged plan to arrest Kwankwaso
has restrained him from
performing his legislative duties
as elected senator representing
Kano Central.
But in a dramatic move, a
statement credited to Kwankwaso
disowned Barrister Okechuwku’s
prayers in court. The statement
issued on July 3rd, the principal
private secretary to Kwankwaso,
Muhammad Inuwa Ali, said the
former governor has not been
restrained from his legislative
duty.
At the resumption of hearing,
yesterday the lead counsel to
EFCC, Barrister Sadisu Abubakar,
claimed that the commission only
knows about the motion to
discontinue the suit, accusing
Kwankwaso’s lawyer of not
informing the commission.
Although EFCC’s lawyer did not
oppose to the application to
discontinue, he, therefore, prayed
the court to issue sanction on the
applicant’s counsel for time
wasting.
Counsel to Kwankwaso did not
appear before the court. In his
ruling, the presiding judge Justice
Muhammad Yahaya struck out
the suit and placed a fine of
N50,000 against Kwankwaso for
wasting the time of the court.
Guardian

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we know the end result, he's an apc member they will grant him bail.

denedene:
we know the end result, he's an apc member they will grant him bail.

And when Ikedi Ohakim of PDP was granted bail you had chronic malaria and did not have to remember, Right?

Stealing is now Corruption. If you have a case, don't make noise. Get a lawyer and head to court to defend yourself.
hari. Change is here to stay.

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