The Nigerian Government is mounting pressure on the Acting Chief
Judge of Federal High Court, John Tsoho, to assign the case of
pro-democracy campaigner and Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele
Sowore, it has been found.
The activist, who has continued to be held by the Department of
State Services despite Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High
Court, Abuja, ordering his release on bail on Tuesday, was arrested
in Lagos on August 3, 2019 for calling on Nigerians to take to the
streets in peaceful demonstrations to express their anger at the
poor state of governance in the country.
According to findings by Sahara
Reporters[1] on Saturday,
Tsoho has come under immense pressure from the government to assign
the case file to enable President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to
amend the charges earlier brought against the activist.
The DSS had on September 21 filed a seven-count charge against
Sowore bordering on treasonable felony, cyberstalking and money
laundering.
However, observers from around the world had condemned the
charges, describing it as baseless and a deliberate attempt to
silence Sowore’s and other voices of dissent in the country.
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Tenure Elongation: FIRS Boss, Fowler Dragged to
Court
…To return all salaries, earnings during ‘illegal’ stay
in office
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has ordered the appearance
of the Chairman Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde
Fowler to appear before it on October 7, 2019 and show cause why he
should not be sacked for overstaying his tenure which expired on
August 18, 2019.
The presiding judge of the High Court, Justice Lewis Allagoa
after hearing a plaintiff’s counsel on September 23, 2019, also
ordered that the defendant should be served in Abuja and filed
their defence within five days.
In court documents obtained by PRNigeria[1] with Suit No
FHC/KN/CS/141/2019, the FIRS Boss was dragged to Court over his
continued stay in office after the expiration of tenure.
The Plaintiff, Mr. Stanley Okwara, in a suit filed on September
18, 2019 and obtained on Saturday, also joined the Attorney General
of the Federation as the second defendant.
In the originating summon, the two defendants were given 30 days
to explain why Fowler who was appointed on the 20th August, 2015,
has not ceased to hold office as the Chairman of FIRS after the
20th August, 2019 in accordance with the “decision of the Supreme
Court…and having regard to the combined provisions of Sections 3(2)
(a), Section 4(a) and Section 11 (a)” of the agency.
The Plaintiffs also sought to know whether the continuous stay
of Fowler in the office “is not illegal in view of the decision of
the Supreme Court in Ogbuinyinya & Ors. vs. Obi Okudo &
Ors. (1979) All N.L.R. 105 and having regard to the combined
provisions of Sections of the FIRS [Establishment] Act, 2007.
In the same vein, Okwara in the suit filed through Johnmary C.
Jideobi & Co, sought other reliefs including: “A declaration
that the 1st Defendant has ceased to hold office as the Chairman of
the Federal Inland Revenue Service after the 20th of August, 2019”;
and that his continuous stay in the office is illegal.
He further sought “an order barring the 1st Defendant from
further holding himself out as, laying claim to or exercising the
powers and functions of, the Executive Chairman of Federal Inland
Revenue Service unless he is re-appointed by the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“An order directing the 1st Defendant to return forthwith to the
Treasury Single Account of the Federation all the salaries,
emoluments and such other kindred monetary benefits he has been
drawing on the purse of the Federal Inland Revenue Service and file
an affidavit of compliance within 14 days after the delivery of
judgment in this suit.”
The Plaintiff also asked that Fowler be caused ordered to obey
any other decision that the Court may deem fit to make in the
entire circumstances of the case.