Thursday, 23 April 2015

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala set for Jail


A Federal High Court in Abuja has been urged to jail the current Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for contempt of court. 

The GROUP known as Centre for Social Justice is asking the presiding judge, Justice Abdulkadir Abdu-Kafarati to jail the minister for disobeying the court’s judgment delivered on February 25, 2014, directing her to provide details of statutory disbursement to some federal agencies.

Centre for Social Justice through it's councel Kingsley Nnajika has filed a case against Okonjo-Iweala following the alleged disobedience of the order of court.

Ruling on the CSJ’s prayer has been fixed by Justice Abdulkadir Abdu-Kafarati for June 3.

The agencies include the National Judicial Council, Niger-Delta Development Commission, Universal Basic Education Commission, National Assembly, Independent National Electoral Commission and the National Human Rights Commission.

Justice Abdu-Kafarati had in his judgement in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/301/2013 upheld CSJ’s claim and ordered the minister to among others, supply the information requested by the applicant.

Source : Naij, Savanah Times 

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