Appeal Court Strikes Out Ibori's Case Over $15m Bribe
The Court of Appeal, Abuja yesterday
threw out an appeal seeking to stop hearing of the federal government
case on the controversial $15m James Ibori bribe money.
Justice Amiru Sanusi leading two other justices struck out the motion for being defective and grossly incompetent to be heard.
A
Lagos based refrigerator repairer Olalekan Bayode had filed the motion
in which he prayed that the federal government suit on the ownership
tussle on the money be stopped pending the final determination of his
appeal case at the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal.
The
grouse of the Appeal Court was that the motion did not contain the
grounds upon which it was filed by a United Kingdom based lawyer Mr John
Kayode Olufemi Aina.
The applicant in the
motion, Olalekan Bayode had at the Federal High Court applied that he be
appointed as a manager to disburse the $15m bribe money to the
indigents, especially widows and orphans through a charitable
organization.
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