*Orders anti-graft agency to tender public apology, delist her name, photograph from wanted persons’ list
By Alex Enumah in Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has come under the sledgehammer of a Federal High Court in Lagos, for its unlawful declaration of Mrs Margaret Emefiele as a wanted person.
The court which nullified the conduct of the anti-graft agency subsequently ordered the Commission as well as its chairman to pay the sum of N3 million as damages to the complainant.
The court predicated its decision on the grounds that the commission cannot on its own without the order of a court of competent jurisdiction declare any person wanted.
Mrs Emefiele had on February 14, 2024, instituted a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the EFCC and its chairman, for publishing her name and photograph in their website as a “wanted person”.
In the suit marked: FHC/L/CS/262/2024, the applicant submitted that the…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
