Bolaji Akinduro, executive chairman of Total Grace Oil and Gas Investment Limited, has sued the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) for Illegally declaring him wanted.
In the suit filed on Wednesday before a federal high court in Lagos, Akinduro submitted that the EFCC declared him wanted illegally without any form of judicial intervention, recourse to constitutional safeguards, or order of a court.
The businessman is seeking a court order for the EFCC to remove his name from the wanted list published on the commission’s official website or any other platform, including X, formerly Twitter.
Akinduro is seeking N5 billion as “general damages”.
Parallelfacts earlier reported on Saturday, the EFCC declared Akinduro wanted for allegedly obtaining money under false pretence and committed “stealing by conversion”.
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On Monday, the businessman, through his counsel, Olalekan Ojo, wrote to Ola Olukoyede, chairman of the EFCC, over what he described as the violation of his fundamental human rights.
He gave a 48-hour ultimatum for the commission to retract the notice that declared him wanted and to issue a public apology in two national newspapers.
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