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.

Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Fareedah Dankaka     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     KWASEIC     Quareeb     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Ayedun     Kawu Baraje     Deji Ajani     Saidu Kawu     Gobir Organization Foundation     Kazeem Adekanye     CCEPE     Kulende     Orire     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Baba Issa     Millennium Development Goals     Ramat Oganija     Igbomina     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Muhammadu Buhari     Yahaya Dumoye     Igbaja     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Okin High School     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Erubu     Col. Taiwo     Frootify     Demola Banu     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Musbau A. Akanji     Bukola Ajikobi     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Rafiu Ibrahim     Garment Factory     Shururat Olatinwo     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     IDPU     Curfew     Asa LGEA School     Arik     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Awoye     Adebayo Salami     Village Alive Development Association     Lai Gobir     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Ibrahim Labaika     Taiwo Joseph     Bashir Adigun     Halimat Yusuf     Iponrin     Paul Odama     Sulyman Tejidini     NIRSAL     March 28     ASMAU PLAZA     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Lukman Adeloyin     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     John Mayokun Dada     Ilorin     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Ronke Adeyemi     Oniwa     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Kuliyan Geri     Afonja     Funmilayo Mohammed     Kwara 2015     Kayode Alabi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Emir Of Kano     Folaranmi Aro     KW-GIS     Rex Olawoye     Buari Edun     Bamidele Adegoke     Olaiya Lawal     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     SSA Youth     Oba-Solagberu     Kola Shittu     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Aso Ofi     Grillo     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Umar Saro     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Tsaragi/Share     Kwara Restoration Project     Yakubu Gobir     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Musa Yeketi     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Lanre Issa Onilu     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Al-Adaby     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Justina Oha     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Moro     Kayode Bankole     NAWOJ     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Playing Host     Ilorin General Hospital     Kumbi Titiloye     Facebook     Muhammed Abdullahi     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Quranic Recitation Competition     Universal Basic Education Commission     Haliru Yahaya     Saheed Akinwumi     Malete     Kwara 2023     Olugbense     Offa Grammer School     Salaudeen Oyewale     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Gobir Organization Foundation     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Sunday Otokiti     Okedare     Kisra     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Okin Biscuits     Kazeem Oladepo     Trader Moni     Mamatu Abdullahi     LAK Jimoh     Mohammed Haruna     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Wole Oke     Ahmad Ali     Aremu Bose Deborah     Frootify     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Nigeria Customs Service     KWAFFA     Inside Kwara     Sulyman Buhari     Ilorin Metro Park     IF-K