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Again, EFCC Chairman Sentenced To Kuje Prison

Again, EFCC Chairman Sentenced To Kuje Prison

 Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has again been sent to prison for disobeying a court order.


The Inspector-General of Police was also directed by the court to effect Bawa’s arrest and remand him in Kuje prison for the next 14 days until he purges himself of the contempt.

It would be recalled that On November 8, 2022, an Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama, ordered the arrest and remanding of the EFCC boss at Kuje prison over contempt.

Justice R.O. Ayoola of the Kogi State High Court, while delivering the judgment on Monday, granted the application for committal to prison of the EFCC chairman for disobeying a court ruling delivered on November 30, 2022, wherein the EFCC chairman was directed to produce the applicant in the case, Ali Bello.

Bawa was taken to court by Ali Bello for unlawful arrest and detention, and the court ruled in his favour, but the EFCC arraigned him for alleged money laundering three days after the ruling.

The EFCC’s applications for setting aside and stay of execution of the ruling were refused for want of merit.

The Court had, in Form 49, Order IX, Rule 13, marked: “HCL/697M/2022” and titled: “Notice to Show Cause Why Order of Committal Should not be Made,” asked the EFCC Chairman to appear before it on January 18, 2022, to explain why he should not be jailed for flouting the order given on December 12, 2022, in a case filed by Ali Bello against EFCC and Bawa, as the 1st and 2nd respondents, respectively.

The court ordered that the EFCC and Bawa be served the motion of notice together with Form 49 by substituted means.

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