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Chimaroke Nnamani (Photo Credit: DailyPost)

Chimaroke Nnamani (Photo Credit: DailyPost)

Ex-Governor Nnamani must be arrested, Court insists

byPremium Times
January 19, 2018
2 min read

A Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on Friday refused the plea to vacate the bench warrant it issued for the arrest of a former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani.

Chuka Obiozor, the judge, turned down the plea by Mr. Nnamani’s lawyer, Rickey Tarfa, and insisted that the ex-governor be produced before him in respect of a N5.3 billion fraud charge.

The judge also struck out Mr. Nnamani’s application challenging the court’s jurisdiction and seeking a perpetual injunction to restrain the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from arresting him.

The application was struck out by the judge after Mr. Tarfa had asked to withdraw same.

The judge, thereafter, adjourned the case till February 20, 2018, at the instance of the EFCC prosecutor, Kelvin Uzozie, who pleaded for time to consult with the anti-graft agency on how to proceed with the case.

Refusing Mr. Tarfa’s prayer for the discharge of the bench warrant against his client, the judge said, “The request for an order to discharge the bench warrant against the first defendant before me, for now, is hereby refused. This is without prejudice to the renewal of the application at the next adjourned date.”

Earlier after withdrawing the application challenging the court’s jurisdiction and seeking a perpetual injunction against the EFCC, Mr. Tarfa had contended that there was no valid charge against his client before the court.

He said a plea bargain had been entered in the case, leading to the conviction of the third to eight defendants.

But Mr. Uzozie explained that though there was a plea bargain in respect of the 3rd to 8th defendants, the case of Mr. Nnamani and his ex-aide, Sunday Anyaogu, who were joined as first and second defendants, had yet to be concluded.

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“We are working on an amendment of the charge to reflect the proper situation. We will ask the court to indulge us by way of an adjournment to bring a clean copy of the charge sheet,” Mr. Uzozie said.

As the defence counsel did not oppose the application for an adjournment, the judge granted same.

Messrs. Nnamani, Anyaogu and six companies had been first arraigned in 2007 for allegedly conspiring to divert about N5.3 billion from the coffers of Enugu State.

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The case, which had been handled by no fewer than three judges, was last year December transferred to Justice Obiozor, who fixed December 4 for the re-arraignment of the defendants.

But following the failure of Messrs. Nnamani and Anyaogu to appear in court, the judge issued a bench warrant for their arrest.

At Friday’s proceedings, Mr. Anyaogu was in court but Mr. Nnamani was not.

His lawyer had in December claimed that the ex-governor was in the United States of America, bedridden in a hospital, where he underwent a heart surgery.

A counsel from the chambers of Rickey Tarfa & Co., Abubakar Shamshudeen, had exhibited a photograph, showing Mr. Nnamani on the sickbed.

But the EFCC lawyer, Mr. Uzozie, claimed that the photo had been in circulation on the Internet since 2014.

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