An ex-Niger Delta aggressor pioneer, Government Ekpemupolo, assumed name Tompolo, has solicited with Justice Ibrahim Buba from a Federal High Court in Lagos to set aside the warrant of capture issued against him.
Equity Buba had on January 14 issued a seat warrant against Tompolo and requested his capture for neglecting to respect a court summons dated January 12 in appreciation of a 40-number of charged N34bn misrepresentation leveled against him and nine others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
On January 14, while all his co-denounced persons were in court with their attorneys, Tompolo was truant and was not spoke to by any legal counselor.
The EFCC prosecutor, Festus Keyamo, had then connected under Section 131 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 for a request to capture Tompolo and convey him to court to answer the charges against him.
While allowing the request, Justice Buba had said there was a proof that the EFCC had served the summons and the charge sheet on Tompolo by sticking them on the mass of his living arrangement at No. 1, Chief Agbanu DDPA Extension, Warri, Delta State.
The judge requested that Tompolo ought to be captured and created in court on February 8 to answer the charges.
Be that as it may, Tompolo has documented an application through his attorneys, Mr. Tayo Oyetibo (SAN) and Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, looking for a request of the court to set aside the warrant of capture issued against him, on the case that the EFCC did not serve him with the summons and the charge sheet.
In the application, Tompolo portrayed as invented the location known as No.1, Chief Agbanu DDPA Extention, Warri, Delta State, where the EFCC said it glued the summons and the charge sheet.
“In the history or geology of Warri or its environs no such road name is known,” Tompolo guaranteed.
His legal advisors likewise contended that the application documented by the EFCC to acquire the request for substituted administration was clumsy on the grounds that it didn’t bear the seal of the legitimate professional who marked it.
In a sworn statement documented in backing of the application, one, Nsikan Udo, who was the deponent, guaranteed that Tompolo’s dwelled at No. 13 Chief Agbamu Close, DDPA Extension, Warri (Effurun), Delta State and not No. 1, Chief Agbamu DDPA Extension, Warri, Delta State where the summons and the charge sheet were stuck by the EFCC.
The deponent guaranteed that as of January 11 when the EFCC went to glue the court papers, Tompolo was at “a premises known as No. 1 Chief Agbamu Lane DDPA Extension, Warri (Effurun), Delta State during the time starting from eleventh January 2016.”
“The door of the premises known as No. 1 Chief Agbamu Close, DDPA Extension, Warri (Effurun), Delta is dark in shading and is not punctured nor does it have a transparent, ruddy/chestnut door with iron bars appeared in Exhibit GE4,” Udo asserted.
Tompolo is thusly looking for, among others, “a request putting aside the warrant for the capture of the first blamed individual/candidate (Government Ekpemupolo, pseudonym Tompolo) issued by this court on fourteenth January 2016 in accordance with the implied administration of the summons and the criminal allegation founded for this situation on the candidate.”
Adegboruwa, in an announcement, be that as it may, said his customer was readied to enthusiastically come to court to answer any charges favored against him.
He likewise said the Inspector General of Police, the Chief of Army Staff and the Navy had been advised of Tompolo’s application, “so that overeager persons don’t exploit the court procedure to endeavor to stomp on his legitimate rights.”
In the charge against Tompolo and others, the EFCC blamed them for scheming to occupy different wholes running into over N34bn, stolen from the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency to their own utilization.
Charged close by Tompolo is the quick past Director General of NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi; one Kime Engozu, Rex Elem, Gregory Mbonu and Capt. Warredi Enisuoh.
They were accused along of four organizations – Global West Vessel Specialist Limited, Odimiri Electrical Limited, Boloboere Property and Estate Limited and Destre Consult Limited.
The EFCC said they acted in opposition to Section 18 (an) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012 and were obligated to discipline under Section 15 (3) of the same Ac
N34bn misrepresentation: Tompolo requests that court abandon capture warrant
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