Lawal Ibrahim: Court questions EFCC’s pursuit of Colleen Yesufu’s claim to plots 1861, 1862 

After Rebecca Omokamo Godwin-Isaac reportedly endured 23 days confined wrong her residence and different 2 days successful EFCC custody, the Commission inactive attempted to support her detained until October. The tribunal refused, questioned whether the prosecution had go idiosyncratic and raised the spectre of a witch-hunt.

After 23 days of reported confinement wrong her residence and 2 further days successful EFCC custody, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission asked the tribunal to revoke Rebecca Omokamo Godwin-Isaac’s bail and support her detained until 26 October 2026.

Justice Joyce Abdulmalik refused.

In a rebuke that present hangs heavy implicit the EFCC’s conduct, the justice reportedly asked:

“Don’t you deliberation you are becoming excessively idiosyncratic astir this case? Are you witch-hunting something?”

The tribunal made it wide that its earlier bid was intended lone to unafraid Rebecca’s attendance astatine trial. It was not support for the EFCC to clasp power of her liberty for different 3 months.

The justice reportedly noted that Rebecca had not antecedently caused trouble successful attending the proceedings oregon shown immoderate unwillingness to look trial.

This was not simply the rejection of different prosecution request.

It was a judicial informing that the EFCC’s behaviour was creating the quality of thing acold ...