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ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ABIA STATE V. ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION & ORS

(2007) JELR 48109 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  SC.73/2006  •  23 Feb 2007  •  Nigeria

Coram
IDRIS LEGBO KUTIGI JSC; SYLVESTER UMARU ONU JSC; ALOYSIUS IYORGYER KATSINA-ALU JSC; UMARU ATU KALGO JSC; ALOMA MARIAM MUKHTAR JSC; WALTER SAMUEL NKANU ONNOGHEN JSC; FRANCIS FEDODE TABAI JSC;

Judgement

W. S. N. ONNOGHEN, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The plaintiff claimed that the agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission a.k.a EFCC, had caused to be printed in February, 2006, the statement of account of Abia State Government's House and other State departments without authorization or consent of the plaintiff. The plaintiff also alleged that the EFCC had received copies of statements of account of the plaintiff from the plaintiff's bankers including but not limited to Hallmark Bank, Guarantee Trust Bank and Many Bank; that the powers to investigate and prosecute financial crimes vested in the EFCC does not extend to the management of the plaintiff's accounts and that the EFCC within the past one year had used its statutory powers in such a way as to freeze the accounts owned and operated by the Bayelsa State Government and the Plateau State Government; that the Government of Abia State does not come within the provisions of section 7(1) of the Economic and Fin…

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