Abdulrasheed Bawa,
chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says he has
appealed the verdict ordering his remand.
Bawa said this on Tuesday while fielding questions from
journalists in Abuja.
“We have appealed against it already so we will allow the
natural course of the law to take its effect,” he said.
An Abuja high court ordered the remand of the EFCC boss over the failure of the anti-graft agency to comply with an earlier order of the court.
Chizoba Oji, the presiding judge, ordered the
inspector-general of police (IGP) to ensure that Bawa is committed to prison
for disobedience.
The judge gave the order in the motion on notice filed by
Adeniyi Ojuawo, air vice marshal (now retired), against the federal government.
The judge held that Bawa is in contempt of the order of the
court after the commission failed to return a Range Rover and the sum of N40
million to Ojuawo.
“Having continued
willfully in disobedience to the order of this court, he should be committed to
prison at Kuje Correctional Centre for his disobedience, and continued
disobedience of the said order of court made on November 21st, 2018, until he
purges himself of the contempt,” the judge said.
BACKGROUND
The EFCC had arraigned Ojuawo on a two-count charge before
Muawiyah Baba Idris, judge of the FCT, in Nyanya in 2016.
He was charged with receiving gratification from Hima
Aboubakar of Societe D’Equipment Internationaux Nigeria Limited totalling N40
million and a Range Rover Sport (supercharged) valued at N29.250 million.
However, the judge discharged and acquitted Ojuawo on
November 21, 2018, on the grounds that the prosecution had not made its case.
The judge then ordered the EFCC to return the money and the
car to him.
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