EFCC wants to seize my Ilorin home, says Saraki

Date: 2019-11-28

A former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had filed a fresh process in the Federal High Court, Lagos, seeking an interim order for the forfeiture of his home in Ilorin, Kwara State.

Saraki said this in a statement by his media aide, Yusuph Olaniyonu.

He said, "Just like the previous one, which the anti-graft agency made by filing a similar order in the same court on Saraki's Ikoyi House, it is a clear abuse of the court process."

He maintained that the action of the EFCC was contrary to the statement of the nation's highest ranking judicial officer, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed.

"All binding court orders must be obeyed. Nobody, irrespective of his or her position, will be allowed to toy with court judgments."

Saraki said he was surprised that the EFCC, "which prides itself as an institution that is built on the rule of law, has decided to ignore the existing order of the Federal High Court, Abuja"

The court, according to him, had "restrained the respondents (EFCC) by itself, subordinates, agents, servants, or privies howsoever, from seizing, impounding, taking over, confiscating or otherwise forfeiting the applicant's (Saraki) right to and peacefully enjoy any of his assets and properties."

The statement read further, "Again, instead of the EFCC consolidating its cases by joining the new application with the old one it earlier filed through which the commission got an interim order of forfeiture, which is already being challenged by Dr Saraki at the Federal High Court, Lagos, it decided to proliferate litigation by filing a fresh matter, all in an attempt to embarrass the former Senate President and ignore an existing order.

"The commission was engaging in this rigmarole in order to ensure it has different cases before different judges against the same person.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ilorin Durbar     Tunde Saad     Photo News     Oniwasi Agbaye     Edu     Alfa Belgore     Galadiman Ngeri     Moro     Ibrahim Oniye     Olam Food Ingredients     Shuaib Abdulkadir     General Hospital, Offa     United Nigeria Congress Party     Taofeek Sanusi     Funmilayo Mohammed     Oyin-Zubair     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     PharmAccess Foundation     ITEM 7     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Bayo Onimago     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Tafidan Kaiama     Toyin Sanusi     Pategi     Segun Ogunsola     Okala Baba     Agbarere     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Wale Oladepo     Sidikat Akaje     Kayode Bankole     Kwara Politics     Folorunsho Erubu     Quareeb Islamic Association     Ajia-Bako     Roseline Oni Aremu     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     JSSCE     Ajeigbe     Mufutau Olatinwo     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Farouk Salim     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Aisha Gobir     Shagari     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     CELF     Barakat Community Secondary School     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Abdulazeez Uthman     Adebayo Salami     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Bola Sagaya     Pacify Labs     Saheed Akinwumi     Assayomo     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Yakubu Dogara     Olatunji Ayeni     Kwara State Fire Service     Aliyu Salihu     Labour Party     Air Peace     Susan Modupe Oluwole     2023 Elections     Abubakar Lah     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     Ayegbeni     Adaramaja     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Ganiyu Abolarin     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Issa Memunat Moyosore     AbdulHamid Adi     Tunji Olawuyi     Magaji Are    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Dasuki Belgore     Offa Grammer School     Elerinjare     Kolo     IDPU     Just Event Online     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Assayomo     08001000100     David Adesina     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Sarakite     Titus Ashaolu     Risikat Lawal     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Stephen Fasakin     Abubakar Imam     Riskat Opakunle     Millennium Development Goals     Lanwa     Ojuekun Sarumi     Gabriel Fashanu     Bolaji Gambari     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Oloriegbe     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Olatinwo     Kwara State Pension Board     Col. Adedipe     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Unicontinental Construction Company     S.O. Opowoye     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Tunji Olawuyi     Royal FM     Doyin Agbamu     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Ibrahim Gambari     Benin Republic     Alabere     Ijagbo Health Centre     Emmanuel Bello     Modibo Kawu     Orisa Bridge     Aisha Buhari     Sheikh Alimi     Otoge     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Aminat Ahmed     Jebba     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Awodun     Olatunde Jare     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Ilorin Muslim Community     Gbugbu International Market     Yemi Sanni     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Borgu     Taiwo Joseph     Saka Adeyemo     Kamaldeen Gambari     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     John Dara     Radio SBS     Maja     NAWOJ     20 Billion Bond     Femi Agbaje     Olaosebikan     Theophilus Oyebiyi