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Sorry! You can’t return as gov, Supreme Court tells Nyako

The hope of former Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State to shield himself from arrest by the EFCC or any other government agency has been dashed on Monday, by a Federal High Court in Abuja which refused to grant his prayer.

Nyako was seeking an order restraining the EFCC, the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) from arresting, or detaining him in relation to a case of alleged financial malpractices.

Nyako who was reportedly quizzed by the EFCC for over eight hours on June 2, 2015 after he surrendered himself to the commission, had, by an ex-parte application, sought an interim injunction restraining the EFCC and other security agencies from detaining him.

He had instituted the suit following his apprehension that he could be arrested over the said allegations by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, or the DSS and prosecuted by the EFCC.

But instead of granting his prayers, Justice Ahmed Mohammed asked his lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, to put the other parties on notice by serving the court processes on them.

Ogungbeje, while moving the motion, urged the court to restrain the respondents – the IGP, DSS and EFCC – from arresting him pending the determination of the main suit.

The fundamental human rights enforcement suit is marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/474/2015, was filed on May 28, 2015.

But in his ruling, Justice Mohammed refused the former governor’s prayer on the grounds that there was no sufficient reason for the court to restrain the respondents.

The judge also ordered Nyako to serve the originating motion on the respondents within seven days. He then adjourned the matter till July 1 for the hearing of the application.

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