Refrain from media trial of Yahaya Bello -Lawyer tells EFCC

A ineligible activistic and law lawyer, Wilfred Molokun, has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to discontinue the incessant media trials of contiguous past politician of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.

Molokun said the anti-graft bureau successful an effort to apprehension and arraign Bello has engaged successful a media trial.

According to him, it is absurd for an bureau charged with work for the enforcement of each economical and fiscal crimes laws to propulsion overboard the regularisation of instrumentality successful its desperation to “persecute, prosecute and humiliate a erstwhile governor”.

Molokun made the telephone portion fielding questions connected the judgement of Kogi State High Court delivered connected April 17 , 2024 by Justice Isa Jamil Abdullahi, who granted an bid restraining the EFCC “from continuing to harass, endanger to apprehension oregon detain” Bello based connected the transgression charges present pending earlier the national precocious tribunal successful Abuja.

He said decorum and decency should beryllium the bid of the day, stressing that EFCC should let the proceedings tribunal justice of the Federal High Court who is seized of the substance to marque a ruling connected Bello exertion seeking to vacate the warrant of arrest, fundamentally arsenic the tribunal has present been adequately addressed by some parties connected the issues.

The ineligible luminary added that the regularisation of instrumentality should reign ultimate successful the behaviour of citizens including firm bodies similar EFCC.

DAILY POST recalls that the Federal High Court had fixed May 10 for ruling connected Yahaya Bello’s exertion seeking to vacate the apprehension warrant made connected April 17, 2024.

Bello’s exertion was argued connected April 23, 2024 earlier justness Emeka Nwite by Adeola Adedipe, SAN, portion Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, who represented the EFCC vehemently opposed it.

In his argument, Adedipe had pointed retired the request for the tribunal to acceptable speech the apprehension warrant.

According to the Senior Advocate, the apprehension warrant order, having been made earlier the complaint ought to beryllium acceptable speech suo motu (on its ain accord, without immoderate petition by the parties involved).

Particularly, arsenic the bureau had connected April 18, made an exertion for a substituted work of its bundles of complaint and impervious of grounds against Bello aft the ex-governor’s pb lawyer, Abdulwahab Mohammed, SAN, declined to person the documents successful the unfastened court.