COURT OF APPEAL SETS ASIDE CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST EFCC BOSS, OLUKOYEDE
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Chairman Olanipekun Olukoyede was the target of contempt proceedings brought by former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, but those actions have been thrown out by the Court of Appeal.
Justice Joseph Oyewole read a unanimous decision that threw out the proceedings and rejected the respondent’s initial objection on the grounds of technicalities.
The Appeal Court ruled that in its final judgment on April 17, the trial judge neglected to extend the orders from February 9.
He claimed that the second concern that the former governor brought up regarding the temporary order had turned into a point of study.
Former governor Bello had earlier filed an ex-parte application for a suspension of contempt proceedings against Olukoyede, which the Appellate Court had approved.
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The EFCC requested that the former governor be served with the appeal’s processes using substituted means, and the court approved their request.
As a result, the court postponed the motion’s hearing until May 20.
In May, the Kogi State High Court asked the EFCC Chairman to appear and provide justification for not being sent to prison for defying its orders.
However, he had filed an appeal against the trial court’s decision and requested a halt to the court’s actions.
The EFCC Chairman executed “some acts upon which the EFCC have been restrained” by the Court on February 9, pending the hearing and resolution of the substantive originating motion, according to the Kogi State High Court’s order.
In a verdict, Justice I. A. Jamil declared that “the respondent (EFCC) carried out the said act in violation of the order, which was valid and subsisting at the time they carried out the act.”
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