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Alleged N5.7bn fraud: Court orders EFCC to stop actions on Okorocha til….

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Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, on Tuesday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to stop any planned prosecution of Rochas Okorocha, until the case before it is determined. Okorocha, a senator representing Imo west, through his counsel, Ola Olanipekun, had approached the court, presided over by Justice Stephen Pam, seeking the enforcement of some orders earlier made in the lawmaker’s favour in a case between him and the EFCC. According to Olanipekun, the court, on December 6, 2021, granted the prayers of his client and ordered the EFCC to stop the prosecution of Okorocha after faulting the process of investigation adopted by the agency. The court had also prohibited the EFCC from investigating or carrying out any other action against the former governor, while asking the anti-graft agency to release his passport and any other travel documents.

At the resumption of proceedings on Tuesday, Olanipekun said he returned to the same court 4 to seek the protection of his client’s rights because the EFCC had refused to obey any of the three orders earlier made. He accused the EFCC of filing new charges against his client recently, based on the same investigation that the court had invalidated in December.

N.A. Dodo, the EFCC counsel, pleaded with the court for time to respond to the processes. He denied that the EFCC was acting in defiance of the court’s decision, saying the commission had invited Okorocha to pick up his international passport and travel documents, but that the former Imo governor had failed to respond.

Justice Pam, however, said he was not happy with the attitude of the EFCC on the matter, noting that he would not tolerate contempt. “I take exception to disobedience. Your organisation (EFCC) should not do anything to the applicant until this matter is determined,” he said. “What is the order? Obey it. If you are not okay with the judgement, go and appeal it. Don’t allow the drama that took place in my court in the matter between Peter Odili and Nigeria Immigration to take place here.”

The EFCC had, on January 31, filed a 17-count charge against the former Imo governor before a federal high court in Abuja. The charge against Okorocha came hours after he formally declared his intention to run for president. According to the EFCC, the former Imo governor allegedly conspired with others, including a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and five companies, to steal N2.9 billion public funds. After the fresh charge was filed in court, Okorocha said he had visited President Muhammadu Buhari to seek his intervention over the action of the EFCC.

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