The court of Appeal sitting
in Ado Ekiti has allowed the appeal filed by EFCC against the judgment of Taiwo
Taiwo of federal high court, Ado Ekiti division and consequently froze the
account of Governor Ayodele Fayose.
In 2016, a federal high
court sitting in Ado Ekiti set aside an earlier order of a federal high court
in Lagos empowering the EFCC to freeze two Zenith Bank accounts of Fayose.
The court had ordered the
EFCC to immediately lift the freeze order on the two accounts belonging to the
governor, saying the anti-graft agency did not follow due process.
Taiwo had given the order
while delivering his judgment, which lasted more than two hours, in a suit
filed by the governor through Mike Ozekhome, his counsel. The judge said the
rights of the governor had been infringed upon, considering the circumstance of
his office.
He declared that apart from
the immunity which Fayose currently enjoys as a sitting governor under section
308 of the constitution, it was wrong for EFCC to freeze his two accounts in
apparent perpetuity without first investigating him or making him a party.
He described Fayose as “a
genuinely deprived person who rushed to the court to seek constitutional
protection”. The judge said it was also the duty of any presiding judge to
protect the said constitution and its interpretations whenever the need arose.
“The plaintiff is entitled
to be heard before his property or money can be seized; doing otherwise will
amount to denying him fair hearing and constitutional rights,” he said
In another news, remember
that Fayose had, yesterday, reacted to President Buhari’s statement on Nigerian
youth being lazy.
In a post he made on
twitter, the governor maintained that the youths of the country are very
hardworking;
At 19, President Buhari
left Secondary School to join the Army. At age 21,he was commissioned a second
lieutenant and appointed Platoon Commander of the Second Infantry Battalion in
Abeokuta, Nigeria. Where can our youths get such opportunity today?
Nigerian youths are
hardworking, intelligent and enterprising. Their future was mortgaged by past
leaders like President Buhari, who had everything at their beck and call as
youths. I imagine the youths of today having half of the opportunities
available in the 50s and 60s…
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