Court comes hard on EFCC over Jonathan’s nephew

– A Federal High Court in Abuja has said the detention of ex-president Jonathan’s nephew, Azibaola Robert by the EFCC‎ for over two weeks is unconstitutional

– The court orders his release on bail

– Justice Goodluck orders that the bail should be guaranteed by two sureties

A form of respite has come the way of Azibaola Robert, a nephew to former president Goodluck Jonathan as a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Thursday, April 7, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to release him on bail.

In his ruling on the ex parte application by Robert, through his lawyer, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), Justice Olasunbo Goodluck said that the applicant’s detention by the EFCC‎ for over two weeks was unconstitutional, The Punch reports.

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Justice Goodluck ordered that the bail should be guaranteed by two sureties.

According to him, each sureties must be a serving or retired director in any of the federal government’s ministries or parastatal and must be resident within Abuja.

The applicant is also to deposit his passport to the Chief Registrar of this court.

The judge ruled that the bail granted to Robert was to subsist, pending his arraignment by EFCC before any court or the hearing of his substantive suit.

A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja has ordered the EFCC to release ex-president Jonathan’s nephew Azibaola Robert on bail

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Justice Goodluck held that the applicant had disclosed sufficient‎ evidence before the court to warrant the granting of his relief.

The EFCC had on March 23, arrested Robert over alleged diversion of $40m through a firm, One-Plus Holdings, which a sister company of Kakatar Construction and Engineering Company Limited, through allegedly phone‎y contract of securing oil pipelines.

Azibaola Robert is a foremost entrepreneur from the Niger Delta with vast business in the area of construction and engineering.

It is believed that his present EFCC ordeal may have no relationship with these alleged contracts but may be connected to a transaction at the former NSA office, which had two of his companies Kakatar and Oneplus Holdings mentioned amongst 300 other companies and individuals across the country by the NSA contracts verification committee.

 

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