AYO FAYOSE in the news again
Court restrains EFCC from seizing Fayose’s property
EFCC on Fayose's premises
A Federal High Court, Ibadan, Tuesday restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from sealing off or tampering with two properties belonging to former Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose.
The order will subsist until the determination of his substantive application.
The buildings are located on Plot 12, Block X, and Plot 10, Block IX, Government Reservation Area, Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Mr Justice J. E. Shakarho made the order following a motion ex-parte brought by Fayose.
The court also barred the agency from further issuing any press statements, publishing pictures of Fayose’s residence, "and/or procuring the release of any information in the print or electronic media in any manner whatsoever pending the hearing and determination of the substantive application."
It granted Fayose leave to serve the notice of application and other processes in the suit on the respondent at Plots 1017 and 1018 Coree Bay Crescent, Off Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja, which is outside the court’s jurisdiction.
Fayose was also permitted to serve the respondents by substituted means. He could advertise the court documents in The Nation and Tribune.
"Such service is deemed good and sufficient," the court said.
The court asked him to enter an undertaking within seven days to pay N1million as damages if the order ought not to have been made.
His pending application, seeking to perpetually stop EFCC from sealing his property, will be heard on October 12.
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