The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday did not sit to hear the appeal lodged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against the order of a Kogi High Court which restrained the anti-graft agency from arresting the immediate-past governor, Yahaya Bello.
The Kogi court, in a ruling on April 17, barred the EFCC from arresting, detaining and prosecuting Bello. The judge, I.A Jamil, gave the order in a two-hour judgment delivered in suit no HCL/68/M/2020 in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, on Wednesday. The judgment coincided with the invasion of Bello’s home in Abuja by EFCC operatives in a bid to arrest him.
The anti-graft agency, in a bid to get Bello to face the law for his alleged crime, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja on the same day to get an arrest warrant. The warrant was issued following an ex parte motion filed by the EFCC. In his ruling on the motion, Justice Emeka Nwite also directed that the former governor be produced before him on Thursday, April 18, for arraignment.
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