NDDC: Where did FG, Akpabio get make-believe court order?
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By Emma Amaize
SINCE last Thursday when a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja said that it never made an order dismissing the Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei-led Interim Management Committee, IMC, of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, concerned stakeholders of the oil-rich region have been waiting to hear from President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, where they obtained the court injunction they claim empowered them to foist an Interim Administrator, once again, on the interventionist agency.
Striking out the suit by the Incorporated Trustees of Forum for Accountability and Good Governance against the Pondei-led IMC, the presiding Judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, unequivocally stated: “There was no order for an interim injunction (against the IMC) granted by this court.”
By Vivian Okejeme, Abuja
A Right Group has asked Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, to order the removal of Mr. Ahmed Idris from office as the Accoutant-General of the Federation. The Incorporated Trustees Of Youth Empowerment And Equal Justice prayed the court to direct Idris to forthwith refund to the Federal Govenment of Ngeria all salaries, emoluments, entitlements and other benefits received, collected or paid to him in the capacity of the accountant-general of the federation from 25” November, 2020 till date of his retirement. The plaintiff, in the suit numbered, FHC/ABJ/CS/61/2020 claimed Mr. Idris is illegally occupying the office of the AGF having reached the mandatory retirement age of 60years and 35 years of service as a public servant.
Architects
The absence of the National Board of Technical Education (NBTE) and Incorporated Trustees of the Nigerian Institute of Architects has stalled the case instituted by Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates of Architectural Technology in Nigeria.
They filed the case against the President, Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON), ARCON, Incorporated Trustees of the Nigerian Institute of Architects, National Board of Technical Education (NBTE), the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) and The Polytechnic, Ibadan.
Sometime in September 2020, the aggrieved HND graduates of Architecture in Nigeria filed a case against ARCON and others for the manner the Council and the Nigerian Institute of Architects treat polytechnic graduates of Architecture in Nigeria.
The defendants were re-arraigned on amended 23 counts of obtaining money by false pretence, money laundering and abuse of office involving about N2,894, 500,000.
EFCC re-arraigns fmr SA to NDDC MD, George Turnah, others for N2.9bn fraud 12 hours ago
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has re-arraigned George Turnah, former Special Adviser to Dan Abia, erstwhile managing director of Niger Delta Commission, NDDC, and two others alongside nine companies, before Justice Mohammed Turaki of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt Rivers State.
A statement issued by the EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwajaren on Monday, said they were re-arraigned on January 22, 2021 on amended twenty-three count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretense, money laundering and abuse of office to the tune of N2,894,500,000 (Two Billion, Eight Hundred and Ninety-four Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira).