A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday assented to a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to seize all but one of the assets belonging to the former General Officer Commanding, GOC, of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.
The presiding judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba gave this order after Tompolo again failed to appear in court to honour a summon on an alleged fraudulent land contract for the construction of the Nigerian Maritime University.
It would be recalled that the anti-graft agency had on Wednesday filed a motion before the court, seeking to freeze Tompolo’s assets. This was after the commission declared him wanted in a newspaper advertorial, following two bench warrants issued against him by the court.
On Friday, counsel to the EFCC, Mr. Festus Keyamo told the court that the efforts by all security agencies to arrest Tompolo had yielded no result, as they were yet to get hold of the first accused person.
His words, “The accused person Tompolo failed to appear again and we brought and application for the seizure of all his properties as provided for by law.
“If an accused person continues to abscond from court and conceals himself from court after a warrant of arrest has been issued, should be auctioned by the federal government. That’s what we have done and the court granted our prayers to seize his properties.
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*Tompolo must have run away by foot.......They should issue international warrant of arrest...
Excellent! The idiotic fool thought he would remain untouchable for ever. Im so glad we voted that imbecile Jonathan out! He gave rise to illiterates like Tompolo claiming war Lords. If this fool see war, he go fit fight? If they like let them blow up pipelines, na their people go suffer am pass.
ReplyDeleteNaaah
DeleteYaradua started it
Jonathan just completed what he started
Remember Yaradua started the amnesty thing and settling them??
That have them control
Jonathan just took it a step further
Abeg shut up!who is "na there people go suffer am pass"im guessing you must be from the west,claiming most educated yet foolish!let buhari and efcc keep fooling themselves anti corruption nonsense,till they start arresting obj,ameachi etc!its all propaganda to distract us from what is wrong with nigeria.i have said it that Nigeria should be divided into 2 the west and north should be called (north nigeria)then also south nigeria,all oil wells belonging to the south that are owned by the northerners be returned to the south!and let me see how your big mouth would open and say"na dem self dem dey do"
DeleteWho be there people"clueless fool art thou all this yoruba ppl forming educated and they are the stupidest people on this planet!take a look at the vp as a pastor,knowing fully well his just a puppet,wont resign and do the honorable thing by saying this government is a fraud and i refuse to be a puppet.manny did it after losing his puma sponsorship,stand for what u believe!nonsense
DeletePopeyes bridle thy tongue
DeleteSo the illiterates like Abiola, Danjuma, Babangida, Tofa etc that have plundered this country before are palatable because they pander to your jaundiced views. Carry your dirty opinion and stick it where the sun don't shine.
DeleteGhen ghen! Tompoplo don run enter creek since naa
ReplyDeleteDear Sisi,
ReplyDeletePls is it legally ok for his assests to be sold off and den later Announce a reward for his whereabouts? And stil Marshall him to court?
Dafty, how would you spell assets in that manner plus why the capital letter to start up that word in a sentence.
DeleteGW dearie.. ermm a bit dicy here.. thing is, the right order should be to first ascertain that a crime of embezzlement took place. During which they can seize his assets to establish that they were bought with the monies in question, or through illegal means. However, If in the course of investigation or pending court appearances the suspect refuses to turn up, thereby stalling the court proceedings, then he automatically forfeits the assets held by the court, because that'll mean that he can't prove his case and would seem guilty. Such judgments are passed at the discretion of the court though...cos it's not a case of collateral gone bad.
DeleteAnd yes, a warrant remains active until defendant shows up in court and case is concluded.
The way things are going in this nation, hope assassinations won't rise.
ReplyDeleteWhy I this man too big to be arrested???
ReplyDeleteBwahahahhahahhhhA.
EfCC have you ever seeked court orders to arrest anybody?lmao
Seek=sought.
DeleteDon't mention
Gbagaun
Delete*sought
DeleteTompolo y r u running na???
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Go to d creeks and ask him.
DeleteTompolo is very much still in this Naija.
ReplyDeleteIs the EFCC that afraid of him?
They should go to the creek and they will find him there.
Stella, International warrant of arrest you say? This guy is in the creeks. Ayiri would be having a ball now, Tompolo almost made him irrelevant in the affairs of Delta State. #OkBye
ReplyDeleteComedy by Buhari.
ReplyDeleteUntil Buhari goes after IBB,OBJ and the Abachas,he is just deceiving himself not Nigerians.
God will bless u daily
DeleteHe should face the law if he's innocent
ReplyDeleteIf e try am a lot of people will go down with him. So I'm sure na them dey help am hide self.
DeleteEfcc mater tire me.
ReplyDeleteGood work.. more criminals are yet to be exposed
ReplyDeleteThey know where to find him, but fear no let them. A classic case of who will bell the cat?
ReplyDeleteAbeg na question i dey ask ,who is EFCC
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