ABUJA: Court Berates EFCC Over Jonathan’s ex-ADC‎ Detention‎, Orders Immediate Bail

A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Jabi, Abuja, has berated the continued detention of a former ADC to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan without arraignment in the court declaring the action illegal and an infringement on the applicant’s fundamental rights.

The Commission had however offered impractical bail conditions to the accused making it impossible to meet up with the conditions, and thereby keep him in perpetuity in the custody  

The court consequently ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to immediately grant him bail emphatically on liberal terms.

On the other hand, Justice Yusuf Halilu, ruling on a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by Adegbe on Tuesday, rejected the plaintiff’s ‎prayer for N100m compensation on account of unlawful detention by EFCC and a request for written apology..

‎Adegbe’s lawyer, Mr. Ogwu Onoja (SAN), also brought to the knowledge of the court that the EFCC his client from its custody to the Army which made the court berate the commission for acting as errand boys of the army noting various contradictory positions it claimed by investigating the plaintiffs on arms deal on one hand, and in another holding him on the instructions of the army

“EFCC cannot reducing itself to the police station or detention centre of the Nigerian Army”.

 While respondent (EFCC) is dancing makossa in one ‎side, it is singing another song on the other side,” the judge noted.

On his refusal to grant the prayers on compensation and public apology to the applicant, the judge said that the applicant is still in the service of the army and also investigated by a Commission which is part of the agencies of the federal government.