The wanted former militant approached the Federal High Court in Lagos last Friday through his lawyer Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa,
to commence legal action to restrain the Federal Government from
proceeding with the N45.9billion fraud charges filed against him.
Government Ekpemupolo AKA Tompolo
is urging the court to not only nullify sections 221 and 306 of the
Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 that prevents him from
seeking stay of proceedings in his trial, but to also restrain the
Federal Government, the EFCC and the Inspector General of Police from
deploying those sections of the law against him.
Tompolo wants the Court to dismiss the arrest warrant issued against him by Justice Ibrahim Buba on February 8th, 2016, and also to disqualify the Judge (Buba) from presiding over his case.
In the suit, Tompolo contended that the
Federal government is not entitled to prosecute or pursue criminal
charge against him “in any manner that will constitute a flagrant
violation of (his) fundamental right to fair hearing as guaranteed under
Sections 36(1), (4) and (6) as well as the inherent powers of a court
of law under Section 6(6)(a)(b) of the Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, 1999.”
The Defendants in the suit are
the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, the Inspector-General of Police, the Chief of Army Staff,
the Chief of Naval Staff and the Chief of Air Staff.
Source: Punch
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