Dokpesi, Others Ask Court To Disregard Buhari’s Executive Order On Corruption

The chairman, Daar Communications, Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, alongside Senator Bala Mohammed and Ambassador Bello Mohammed have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

Dokpesi and co demanded the court to declare that the Executive Order No 6(restraining owners of assets under probe from carrying out further transactions on such properties) of 2018 issued by the President is unlawful.

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“An order of this honourable court nullifying the presidential executive order No. 6 of 2018 on the ground that the order scandalizes the plaintiffs by stigmatising them as corrupt and labeling their assets as proceeds of corruption liable to forfeiture,” read a document prepared by their lawyers.

“An order of this honourable court nullifying the presidential executive order No. 6 of 2018 on the ground that it constitutes a violation of the rule against self-help in that the president purports to take action detrimental to the plaintiffs in respect of assets subject of pending litigation between the government and the plaintiffs and in effect to deem the plaintiffs guilty of whatever offences charged against them.

“An order of this honourable court nullifying the presidential executive order No. 6 of 2018 on the ground that the said order does not help the cause of justice, peace, order and good government same being founded on bias, malice and ill-will.

“An order of this honourable court restraining the defendants, their agents, assigns, representatives, privies or howsoever called from implementing or giving effect to the provisions of the presidential executive order No. 6, same being unconstitutional, null and void.”

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