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A Kogi High Court in Lokoja on Friday ordered the Chairman of the EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, to appear before it on May 13 for allegedly disobeying its order.

Justice I.A. Jamil of High Court IV gave the order while ruling in Suit No. HCL/68M/2024 and Motion No. HCL/190M/2024, brought before him by ex-Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.

The said act was carried out by the respondent (EFCC) in violation of the order, which was valid and subsisting when they carried out the act. That same act of the respondent amounts to contempt,  the judge pronounced.

EFCC operatives had on April 17 besieged the residence of former Kogi governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, in a bid to arrest him, despite a court order restraining them from taking such action, pending the determination of the originating motion.

Justice Jamils order was based on a motion ex-parte filed by Yahaya Bello through his lawyer, M.S. Yusuf, asking for an order to issue and serve the respondent (EFCC Chairman) with Form 49 Notice to show cause why Order of Committal should not be made on Olukoyede.

The judge, after listening to the arguments of the applicants counsel, the submission and the exhibits attached to the written address, granted Bellos prayers and ordered Olukoyede to be summoned to appear before the court to answer the contempt charge.

The applicants application before me is to the effect that the respondent had carried out some acts upon which they have been restrained by this court on Feb. 9, pending the determination of the substantive motion on notice before this court.

That the said act was carried out by the respondent in violation of the order, which was valid and subsisting when they carried out those acts. That same act of the respondent amounts to act of contempt.

Its against the above facts that this Court hereby grants the prayers sought in line with the principle of Audi Ultra Patem (listen to the other side).

This matter is adjourned to May 13 for the respondents chairman to appear before this court in answer to Form 49 ordered to be served on him, the judge said.

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