{"id":11714,"date":"2016-03-24T14:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T14:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2016-03-24T14:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T14:21:38","slug":"dont-issue-warrant-of-arrest-against-ex-efcc-chairman-ibrahim-lamorde-court-warns-nigerias-senateorders-you-must-wait-pending-the-hearing-and-determination-of-the-motion-on-notic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/dont-issue-warrant-of-arrest-against-ex-efcc-chairman-ibrahim-lamorde-court-warns-nigerias-senateorders-you-must-wait-pending-the-hearing-and-determination-of-the-motion-on-notic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Don&#8217;t Issue Warrant of Arrest Against ex-EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde&#8217;  -Court warns Nigeria&#8217;s SENATE*Orders: \u201cYou Must Wait Pending the Hearing and Determination of the Motion on Notice for Interlocutory Injunction\u201d*Why Court Grants Injunction against Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges &#038; Public Petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b>&#8216;Don&#8217;t Issue Warrant of Arrest Against ex-EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde&#8217;<\/b><\/span><b> <\/b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Court warns Nigeria&#8217;s SENATE<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*Orders: \u201cYou Must Wait P<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ending the Hearing and Determination of the Motion on Notice for Interlocutory Injunction\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*Why Court Grants Injunction against Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges &amp; Public Petitions<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lamorde-1.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2528\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2528\" src=\"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lamorde-1-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Lamorde 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lamorde-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lamorde-1-300x297.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>BY KUNLE AYODELE\/<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>JUDICIAL REPORTER<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, ABUJA<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THE Senate in Nigeria has been warned and ordered to stay away from issuing any warrant of arrest against Ibrahim Lamorde, former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) pending the hearing, determination of the Motion on Notice for Interlocutory Injunction.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Festus Keyamo, lawyer to the Applicant, Lamorde sent us a press statement in a Suit No. FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/934\/2015 at the Federal High Court Abuja, Justice Gabriel Kolawole specifically instructed the The Senate, The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions as Respondents to abide by the ruling of the court. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For this reason, Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja granted an Order of Interim Injunction restraining the Senate and its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions from issuing any Warrant of Arrest against the former Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice for Interlocutory Injunction. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This was sequel to the fact that despite the pendency of Lamorde\u2019s suit in court challenging the powers of the Senate to issue a Warrant of Arrest when a proper Summons to appear had not been issued against him, the Senate still went ahead to pass a Resolution to issue a Warrant of Arrest against Lamorde. The Court had to intervene at this stage by granting and Injunction against the Senate.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Don&#8217;t Issue Warrant of Arrest Against ex-EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde&#8217; &#8211;Court warns Nigeria&#8217;s SENATE *Orders: \u201cYou Must Wait Pending the Hearing and Determination of the Motion on Notice for Interlocutory Injunction\u201d *Why Court Grants Injunction against Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges &amp; Public Petitions BY KUNLE AYODELE\/JUDICIAL REPORTER, ABUJA THE Senate in Nigeria has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}