ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), failed to bring the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele to court on Monday.
This was in defiance to an order by the Federal Capital Territory High Court on Thursday, which ordered the commission to either release him or produce him in court for the hearing of a motion on his bail.
However, at the court proceedings on Monday, the former CBN Governor was not present.
Emefiele’s lawyer, Mathew Burkaa, thereafter, accused the EFCC of disobeying the court order.
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He said: “They have flouted both orders as today marks the 149th day of the Applicant being in custody.
“The Applicant is still in the custody of the 3rd and 4th Respondents, up till this moment that we speak.”
In response, the EFCC’s counsel, Farouk Abdullahi, said although the order was served on the commission, he denied that Emefiele had spent over 100 days in its custody, adding that not obeying the order was not a deliberate act.
According to him, certain exhibits referred to by the applicant, particularly exhibit E, were not attached to the order.
The presiding judge, Justice Olusegun Adeniyi, adjourned the matter till 8 November, restating his order that the EFCC should either release Emefiele unconditionally or in the alternative, produce him in court on the next adjourned date to be admitted to bail.