BREAKING: COURT RESTRAINS EFCC FROM ARRESTING, DETAINING, PROSECUTING EX-KOGI GOV, YAHAYA BELLO
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been ordered by a High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, to refrain from violating the fundamental human rights of the former governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.
In a two-hour judgment delivered on Wednesday at High Court 4 and presided over by Hon. Justice I.A. Jamil in suit no. HCL/68/M/2020, the court restrained the EFCC from arresting, detaining and prosecuting the applicant except as authorized by the Court. This is a definite order following the earlier interim injunction given.
The judgment followed the suit brought before the court by Alhaji Yahaya Bello, the applicant, seeking to enforce his fundamental rights against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Court equally restrained the respondents from continuing to persecute the applicant.
Earlier in the judgement, the Court dismissed the issue of jurisdiction as challenged by the EFCC.
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The applicant’s counsel, S.A. Abbas and M.S. Yusuf, described the judgment as landmark, while the defendant’s counsel, T.U. Odima and Patrick O. Jibril, also aligned themselves with the judgment, describing it as thorough.
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