Recently, a Judge of a federal superior court of record was booted out by the judicial authorities. Amongst the grounds for his removal as reported, was “that the Judge continued with the garnishee proceedings despite application for stay of execution…” see it Here Continue reading “Garnishee Proceedings vs Application for Stay of Execution; The position of the law”
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Friday, June 26, 2015 turned down the bail application of Emmanuel Okoyomon, a former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company, NSPM, whose extradition is being sought by the United Kingdom government over his alleged role in the bribery allegation involving officials of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company, NSPM and Securency International Pty of Australia between 2006 and 2008.
However, the court granted Okoyomon’s plea for stay of execution on the order to extradite him.
The UK government had, through the office of Attorney General of the Federation, requested Okoyomon to be extradited to face charges of corruption and money laundering
In a bid to stall his extradition, Okoyomon had, in October, 2014 through his counsel, Alex Iziyon, SAN, challenged the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the application to extradite him. Continue reading “Okoyomon refused bail”
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