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.

Mohammed Haruna     Shonga Farm Project     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Laboratory-to-Product     Gbugbu     Moses Salami     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Grillo     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Dan-Kazeem     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Ilorin General Hospital     College Of Health     Hassan Saliu     Alliance For Democracy     Mazars Consulting     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Yakub Lai Gobir     Mohammed Ibrahim     Oke-Kura     Baakini     Habeeb Saidu     Isapa     Ballah     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Femi Ogunsola     Charles Ibitoye     Bashir Badawi     Ilota     KWIRS     Oyedepo     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     KwaraLearn     KSIRS     Buari Edun     Aliyu Alhassan     Jaigbade Alao     Kayode Ogunlowo     Kayode Zubair     Manzuma     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Alabi Lawal     Okeose Christian Cementary     Muritala Olarewaju     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Ben Duntoye     Bashiru Makama     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Aliyu Adebayo     Na\'Allah     Kwara Volleyball Association     Okala Baba     Old Oyo     Umar Saro     Okiki     Funmilayo Oniwa     Aliyu Umar     Radio Kwara     Goodluck Jonathan     Doyin Awoyale     Saheed Alakoso     Olawuyi     Omotosho     HYPPADEC     Arinola Lawal     Umar Ayinla Saro     Yusuf Arowosaye     Suleiman Alege Kuranga    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sadiq Buhari     Mike Omotosho     Musibau Akanji     SSA Youth     Read With Me     Kumbi Titiloye     Gurei     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Yusuf Lawal     Abikan     Maryam A. Garuba     Umaru Saro     Matthew Okedare     Riskat Opakunle     Ebola     Tosho Yaqub     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Edu     ER-KANG Mining     Young Progressives Party     Ilofa     Farouk Salim     Kayode Issa     Minimum Wage     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Gobirawa     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Fulani     Oye Tinuoye     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Oyawoye     Alfa Belgore     Apaola     Bursary     Shade Omoniyi     Government High School Adeta     Jani Ibrahim     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Babata     Mary Arinde     Toyin Saraki     Mutawali     Yusuf Abdulkadir     AIT Ilorin     QuickWin     Ubandoma     Kwara Liberation Group     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     John Mayokun Dada     Kabir Shagaya     Gbenga Adebayo     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     SWAN     Florence Saraki     Ethical College     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     JAAC     07039448763     Abdulwaheed Musa     Baruten     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Kanu Agabi     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Wale Oladepo     Hamid Bobboyi     Abatemi-Usman     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Hakeem Idris     Oke-Kura     Communication Network Support Services