The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, has expressed its readiness to appeal a court judgment that vacated a forfeiture order on a number of properties traced to Senator Stella Oduah.
Stella Oduah was a Minister of Aviation in the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan.
She has been under EFCC investigation for a couple of years over corruption allegations.
Here is the anti-graft agency’s reaction to the development…
“The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, delivered on Monday, June 8, 2020, on the vacation of an interim forfeiture order regarding some assets traced to former Aviation Minister, Senator Stella Oduah.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, in the ruling, struck out the EFCC’s counter-affidavit on the ground that it “was filed out of time without first seeking the court’s leave for an extension of time to file”.
The EFCC is dissatisfied with the ruling and will file an appeal against it accordingly.”
