Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of a Excessive Court docket of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday slammed a whopping sum of N100 million effective towards the federal authorities and the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) for unlawfully detaining former Governor of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.
Justice Adeniyi additional barred the federal authorities and any of its businesses, however Emefiele’s present trial, from re-arresting, detaining and harassing Emefiele over any alleged offence with out first acquiring a warrant of arrest from a court docket of competent jurisdiction.
The choose issued the order after he declared the lengthy detention of Emefiele for over 5 months by the Division of State Service (DSS) and EFCC as unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional.
Based on the choose, the excuse by the federal authorities that Emefiele was being investigated for different alleged infractions was not tenable, including that the order of detention obtained from a Chief Justice of the Peace Court docket in Wuse, Abuja lacked probative worth.
He additional berated safety businesses for first arresting and detaining suspect earlier than investigation.