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The Chairman of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been dedicated to jail for allegedly disobeying court docket order.
The court docket additionally directed the Inspector-Normal of Police, Usman Baba, to impact Bawa’s arrest and remand him in Kuje jail for the following 14 days till he purges himself of the contempt.
Justice R.O. Ayoola of the Kogi State Excessive Courtroom, in his judgement on Monday, granted the applying for committal to jail of the EFCC chairman for disobeying a court docket ruling delivered on November 30, 2022, whereby the EFCC chairman was directed to supply the applicant within the case, Ali Bello.
Ali Bello had dragged Bawa to court docket for arresting and detaining him illegally, with the court docket ruling in his favour, just for the EFCC to arraign him for alleged cash laundering three days after the ruling.
The EFCC’s purposes for setting apart and keep of execution of the ruling have been refused for need of benefit.
The Courtroom had, in Kind 49, Order IX, Rule 13, marked, “HCL/697M/2022” and titled, “Discover to Present Trigger Why Order of Committal Shouldn’t be Made,” requested the EFCC Chairman to seem earlier than it on January 18, 2022 to clarify why he shouldn’t be jailed for flouting the order given on December 12, 2022 in a case filed by Ali Bello towards the EFCC and Bawa, as the first and 2nd respondents, respectively.
The court docket ordered that the EFCC and Bawa be served the movement of discover along with Kind 49 by substituted means.
The court docket had declared the arrest and detention of the applicant within the face of a subsisting court docket order made by a court docket of competent jurisdiction and and not using a warrant of arrest “or being knowledgeable of the offence for which he was arrested” as illegal, unconstitutional, and in contravention of the non-public liberty and dignity of human individual assured below Chapter IV of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).
The court docket had additionally ordered the respondents to tender an apology to the applicant in a nationwide newspaper and awarded N10 million compensation for him.
