The family of Robert Azibaola, cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of disobeying a Federal High Court order which granted him bail.
Azibaola who has been in the EFCC custody since March 23 is been investigated by the commission over his alleged involvement in the diversion of a N40billion oil pipeline security contract through One-Plus Holdings, a sister company of Kakatar Construction Limited.
Azibaola allegedly recieved the payment for the contract which was said to have been made by the detained former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
Worried by his continued incarceration, Azibaola had approach a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for the enforcement of his fundamental Human Right.
Ruling on the application, Justice Olasunbor held that Robert’s detention by the EFCC for over two weeks was unconstitutional.
Instead of obeying the court order, the EFCC last week Friday approached an Ikeja Magistrate with a holden charge to further remand him in their custody.
Addressing a press conference on Sunday in Lagos, Azibaola’s brother Dr. Faith Robert alleged that the EFCC has refused to obey the bail order granted to his brother by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
” It is important to note that EFCC, an organisation created by an Act of Parliament has continued to treat the order of a Federal High Court with contempt. Some officials from the commission have even boasted that no court order can be binding on EFCC.
” It is instructive to note that even the remand order by a Magistrate court which EFCC relied on to detain my brother expired on April 19. After several surreptitious attempts to renew the order in several magistrate court failed in Abuja, they sneaked him to Lagos to obtain a fresh remand order from another magistrate court even when there is a subsisting order and production warrant from a court of superior jurisdiction,” he said.
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