Contempt: EFCC Chairman Convicted court, Directs IGP To Execute Order

Contempt: EFCC Chairman Convicted court, Directs IGP To Execute Order

The Federal Capital Territory High Court has convicted Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for contempt of court in relation to his agency’s failure to comply with an earlier order of the court.

Justice Chizoba Oji ruled on Tuesday that the chairman of the anti-graft agency is in violation of the court’s decision dated November 21, 2018, which instructs the commission to give a requester back his Range Rover (supercharged) and the sum of N40 million.

Justice Oji further directed the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba to ensure that the order of this court is executed forthwith.

The judge rejected the arguments put forward by the lawyer to the EFCC, Francis Jirbo to justify his client’s action.

The ruling delivered on October 28, a Certified True Copy (CTC) which was sighted by Channels Television, was on a motion on notice marked filed by Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Rufus Adeniyi Ojuawo, a one-time Director of Operations at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF).

Ojuawo had, in the motion, complained that the EFCC declined to comply with the order, for the release of his seized property, made by the court in a judgment delivered on November 21, 2018.