EX-NNPC chief Yakubu sues EFCC, CBN, GTB, wants to grab $9.8m
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Former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, has sued the EFCC, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB) for denial presumed to release his $9.8 million after a court ruling.
Mr. Yakubu, through his lawyer, Ahmed Raji, filed the complaint before Judge Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The original subpoena, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/231/2023, was dated and filed March 8, with EFCC, CBN and GTB listed as 1st through 3rd defendants, respectively.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Judge Ahmed Mohammed on March 31, 2022 acquitted and acquitted ex-NNPC GMD of the money laundering charge.
Judge Mohammed found that the EFCC had failed to prove his case beyond a reasonable doubt, but the anti-corruption agency appealed the judgement.
Mr. Yakubu, in the suit, asked whether "the court had not become dominus litis of the respective sums of $9,773,200 and £74,000 belonging to him" when this was called into question, and in evidence before the court in charge of the number: FHC/ABJ/CR/43/2017 between the Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Engr Andrew Yakubu, and for which judgment was rendered on March 31, 2022."
He said if the question was answered in the affirmative, whether the EFCC should still have custody of its seized funds after a sister court ruled in its favor on March 31, 2022.
Mr. Yakubu therefore asked whether the sums should not be returned to him immediately, or paid into an account under the control of the court registry, pending the outcome of the appeal lodged by the EFCC against the said judgment.
He sought an order directing the defendants to immediately return the money to him in light of the court's judgment.
Alternatively, he sought an order directing them to immediately transfer said funds to an account under the control of the Chief Registrar of the FHC or to an account to be managed by the Chief Registrar, the EFCC and him, pending the decision of the appeal.
But the EFCC, in a preliminary notice of objection, urged the court to dismiss Mr. Yakubu's claim.
In the petition dated March 20 and filed April 12 by Faruk Abdullah, the anti-corruption agency argued that the lawsuit was an abuse of process.
He said the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case.
The commission said it also relied on previous court proceedings in which it raised jurisdictional issues and urged the court to strike out the entire suit
In the affidavit in support of the motion filed by Sambo Mayana, a commission detective, the EFCC claimed that most of Mr. Yakubu's depositions did not reflect the correct position of the case.
He said that a...
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Former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, has sued the EFCC, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB) for denial presumed to release his $9.8 million after a court ruling.
Mr. Yakubu, through his lawyer, Ahmed Raji, filed the complaint before Judge Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The original subpoena, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/231/2023, was dated and filed March 8, with EFCC, CBN and GTB listed as 1st through 3rd defendants, respectively.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Judge Ahmed Mohammed on March 31, 2022 acquitted and acquitted ex-NNPC GMD of the money laundering charge.
Judge Mohammed found that the EFCC had failed to prove his case beyond a reasonable doubt, but the anti-corruption agency appealed the judgement.
Mr. Yakubu, in the suit, asked whether "the court had not become dominus litis of the respective sums of $9,773,200 and £74,000 belonging to him" when this was called into question, and in evidence before the court in charge of the number: FHC/ABJ/CR/43/2017 between the Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Engr Andrew Yakubu, and for which judgment was rendered on March 31, 2022."
He said if the question was answered in the affirmative, whether the EFCC should still have custody of its seized funds after a sister court ruled in its favor on March 31, 2022.
Mr. Yakubu therefore asked whether the sums should not be returned to him immediately, or paid into an account under the control of the court registry, pending the outcome of the appeal lodged by the EFCC against the said judgment.
He sought an order directing the defendants to immediately return the money to him in light of the court's judgment.
Alternatively, he sought an order directing them to immediately transfer said funds to an account under the control of the Chief Registrar of the FHC or to an account to be managed by the Chief Registrar, the EFCC and him, pending the decision of the appeal.
But the EFCC, in a preliminary notice of objection, urged the court to dismiss Mr. Yakubu's claim.
In the petition dated March 20 and filed April 12 by Faruk Abdullah, the anti-corruption agency argued that the lawsuit was an abuse of process.
He said the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case.
The commission said it also relied on previous court proceedings in which it raised jurisdictional issues and urged the court to strike out the entire suit
In the affidavit in support of the motion filed by Sambo Mayana, a commission detective, the EFCC claimed that most of Mr. Yakubu's depositions did not reflect the correct position of the case.
He said that a...
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