Court adjourns case on Executive Order 6

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the suit challenging the Presidential Executive Order No. 6 till August 30.

The suit is challenging the legality or otherwise of the order on the preservation of assets connected with corruption and other related offences.

The vacation judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, adjourned to the date to enable the plaintiffs to exhibit the order. The order is the matter in contention.

The counsel to the plaintiffs, Mr Obed Agu, had told the court that he did not attach the order with the processes because it is with the defendants.

The judge however told the counsel to apply for the order and make it available to the court.

“If you want the court to determine the legality or otherwise of this order, you have to present it to the court.

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“It is an originating summons and so any document you want the court to determine must be made available to the court.”

Speaking in the same vein, Mr T.A. Gazali, counsel to the defendants said that they were not hiding the order and that if the plaintiffs wanted a copy, it would be made available to them.The defendants in the suit are the President and the attorney-general of the federation.

It will be recalled that the plaintiffs, Mr Ikenga Ugochinyere and Kenneth Udeze, approached the court to seek the court’s interpretation and determination of the Executive Order No. 6.

They are asking for an order of court setting aside and/or nullifying the provisions of the Executive Order No. 6 for being unlawful, unconstitutional, illegal, null and void. This is aside seeking for an injunction restraining the defendants from enforcing the order.

 

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