A Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained the Senate and its
Committee on on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions from issuing any
warrant of arrest against the immediate past Chairman of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde.
The enrolled order, a copy of which was made available to
journalists in Abuja on Thursday, was obtained by Lamorde on March 7,
2016.
The restraining order issued by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, is to
subsist until determination of the ex-EFCC boss’ motion on notice for
interlocutory Injunction.
The Senate committee is seeking Lamorde’s arrest over his failure
to appear before to it to answer to the petition that he diverted
proceeds of recovered loot from convicts of crimes.
But Justice Kolawole in his ruling directed that the order be served on the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase.
The judge ruled, “A limited order of injunction is hereby granted
to restrain the defendants pending when they are heard on their reply to
plaintiff’s motion on notice which I have fixed for March 15, 2016 for
the defendants, though served, who have yet to appear in the plaintiff’s
suit or file any process.”
He ordered the plaintiff’s lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, to obtain a
certified true copy of the orders in this ruling and serve e same to be
served on the Inspector-General of Police.
He ruled that the court would by the court’s order, refrain to
“give any effect to any of such warrant which the defendants may have
issued against the plaintiff on the simple judicial principle of lis
pendens.”
It was learnt that none of the defendants was represented on March
15 when the case came up following which the court adjourned to April 25Source: Punch
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