An Appeal Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State
capital today dismissed an interlocutory application brought before it
by the EFCC against Governor
Ayodele Fayose.
EFCC, in the application,
sought to restrain the Zenith Bank Plc from allowing the governor to
gain access to his accounts domiciled in the bank.
However, the Appeal
Court panel comprising Justices Ahmed Belgore, Fatima Akinbami and Paul
Elechi, in a unanimous verdict dismissed the application.
Reading
the judgment, Justice Akinbami said, “No valid appeal has been made
against the judgement of the lower court which unfroze the account.
Again, the judgment the EFCC was appealing against was not attached to
this application. EFCC also failed to show sufficient evidence that the
money in the account was a proceed of crime as claimed. In doing this,
we expect the EFCC to have shown evidence that the plaintiff has been
tried for a criminal offence before for it to assume that he can receive
the proceed of crime.
“We
also found that there was suppression of facts to get the account
frozen in the first instance. It was also noted that Governor Fayose, in
line with Section 308, enjoys immunity and his personal account can’t
be frozen. Having not done all these as demanded by law and equity, as
those facts were facts that would assist in exercising the court’s
discretion either for or against as it is an application that is
predicated on the discretion of the court, the application is hereby
thrown out.”
The
accounts were frozen back in June 2016 over allegations that they
contained funds suspected to have been distributed through the office of
the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki.
However,
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti, unfroze the
accounts in December 2016, after which the governor withdrew N5million
from the accounts. Consequent upon this, the EFCC filed an appeal
against the judgement and prayed the court to freeze the accounts on the
premise that the funds in the accounts were the proceeds of crime and
pending the dispensation of justice on the matter to prove Fayose’s
innocence.
8 comments:
@Spotless baba
Nothing does you
Haters, choke on it
@Galore
AY.. Badt guy
Why can't it be frozen + the other day patience Jonathan's account was released tooo by the courts.
His name is "PETER" the Rock..u jam rock u die,rock jam u,na still die...Fayose for President 2019 ..Oshoko Awa ngbadun é
Congratulations to the people's governor! The judiciary is indeed the last hope of the common man.
EFCC are barking dogs that can't bite. Corrupt mutherfuckers. Why won't they loose when all the do is to play to the galary with useless, imbecile, uneducated, poverty stricken, unintelligent, northern retards. How come the organization has 70% of northerners as investigators and Hausa as the official language of communication. If I lie, pls visit awolowo office. The Nigeria will seek, will be that which its law enforcement is professional, non sectional, smart, educated and more importantly, Non-ass lickers
Linda, the press is an important phase of our much needed transformation and you can chase this passionate free press dream of yours by ensuring that there is a partnership between the public and these agencies and even government. Our voices should truly be heard!!!
Seen
GOOD
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
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