A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed April 20 to determine an application by Kogi State seeking to vacate an interim order of the court freezing 14 properties linked to the state governor.
Justice Nicholas Oweibo fixed the date after taking submissions from the Kogi State Government’s counsel, Abdulwahab Mohammed, SAN, and the counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN.
Highlighting a string of controversies with the EFCC, Mohammed said the order of the Kogi State High Court restraining EFCC from taking any step against the state government was subsisting, hence the forfeiture was invalid.
But Counsel to the EFCC, Oyedepo, urged the court to dismiss the application of the applicant seeking to vacate the order earlier made by the court as it lacked merit.
Recall that the Court granted the interim forfeiture order following an ex parte motion to confiscate 14 properties and firms in Lagos, Abuja, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as N400m, recovered from one Aminu Falala.
