A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, sitting in Abuja has convicted the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, of contempt of court. The conviction was in relation to the failure of the anti-graft agency to comply with a November 21, 2018 court order directing the agency to return a Range Rover and the sum of forty million naira to an applicant ,a one time Director of Operations at the Nigerian Air Force,Air Vice Marshall Rufus Ojuawo.
In his ruling the Presiding Judge, Justice Chizoba Oji held that, “The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is in contempt of the orders of this honourable court made on November 21st 2018 directing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abuja to return to the applicant his Range Rover (Supercharged) and the sum of N40, 000,000.00 (Forty Million Naira).
“Having continued wilfully in disobedience to the order of this court, he should be committed to prison at Kuje Correctional Centre for his disobedience, and continued disobedience of the said order of court made on November 21st, 2018, until he purges himself of the contempt.