ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION V. ABIODUN AGBELE

HAMMA AKAWU BARKA, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The facts generating the instant appeal as can be gleaned from the records do not appear to be in contest. The appellant, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is an agency of the Federal Government established by the EFCC Act of 2004; vested with investigatory and prosecutorial powers with respect to all crimes connected with or related to economic and financial crimes; and presumably acting under such powers, appellant arrested the respondent at the Park View Estate Lagos, on the 27th of June, 2016 on the suspicion of having committed an offence. On being arrested, respondent was taken to the Lagos office of the EFCC (appellants) where he volunteered two statements.

Even though appellants granted the respondent administrative bail, it is evident that the respondent initially failed to meet up with the stringent conditions attached thereto. Further to that, appellants approached the Lagos state Magistrate Court 5, locate…