A former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, raised
the alarm that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had
filed a fresh process in the Federal High Court, Lagos, seeking an
interim order for the forfeiture of his home in Ilorin, Kwara
State.
Saraki said this in a statement by his media aide, Yusuph
Olaniyonu.
He said, “Just like the previous one, which the anti-graft
agency made by filing a similar order in the same court on Saraki’s
Ikoyi House, it is a clear abuse of the court process.”
He maintained that the action of the EFCC was contrary to the
statement of the nation’s highest ranking judicial officer, Justice
Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed.
“All binding court orders must be obeyed. Nobody, irrespective
of his or her position, will be allowed to toy with court
judgments.”
Saraki said he was surprised that the EFCC, “which prides itself
as an institution that is built on the rule of law, has decided to
ignore the existing order of the Federal High Court, Abuja”
The court, according to him, had “restrained the respondents
(EFCC) by itself, subordinates, agents, servants, or privies
howsoever, from seizing, impounding, taking over, confiscating or
otherwise forfeiting the applicant’s (Saraki) right to and
peacefully enjoy any of his assets and properties.”
The statement read further, “Again, instead of the EFCC
consolidating its cases by joining the new application with the old
one it earlier filed through which the commission got an interim
order of forfeiture, which is already being challenged by Dr Saraki
at the Federal High Court, Lagos, it decided to proliferate
litigation by filing a fresh matter, all in an attempt to embarrass
the former Senate President and ignore an existing order.
“The commission was engaging in this rigmarole in order to
ensure it has different cases before different judges against the
same person.”
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