Concern over Buhari administration’s penchant for disobeying court orders

In this report, OLADIMEJI RAMON looks at the number of court orders not honoured by the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in the last four years

Curious about the identities of the looters, an anti-corruption advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, requested the names of the looters according to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Giving judgement on July 5, 2017, Justice Hadizat Shagari agreed with SERAP and ordered the Federal Government to make the names of the looters public.

The organisation, in its petition dated May 11, 2018, lamented the “Federal Government’s habit of picking and choosing court judgements to obey.” But on December 3, 2016, the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the release of the cleric and his wife. Besides, the judge awarded N25m each in favour of the husband and wife against the Federal Government for the violation of their rights.

Following his arraignment, Dasuki was variously granted bail by both the courts where he is being tried for illegal firearms possession and fraud. Four years after, Dasuki’s trials have made little or no progress as he insisted that until the government allowed him to enjoy the bail granted him by the courts, he would not appear in court for his trial.

In his judgement, Justice Kolawole said it was mandatory for the government to set the debt limits as provided by Section 42 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2007. “Section 287 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 is to the effect that every government, whether federal or state, every institution of the government, every agency of the government and individuals are obligated to obey and enforce the judgements of courts of records.

Akinseye-George said any court judgement, no matter how unreasonable it might seem, must be obeyed, adding that if the government had any reason at all not to obey a court judgement, it must go to that court and state such reasons rather than ignore such judgement.

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