EKO HOT BLOG reports that Justice Adeyemi Ajayi of the Abuja Federal High Court has granted some mandatory orders empowering Gloria Okolie to get the sum of N60 million earlier awarded to her by the FCT High Court presided over by Justice Haliyu.
Justice Ajayi gave the orders during proceedings on Thursday, August 18, 2022, according to The PUNCH.
Officers of the Intelligence Response Team in Owerri, Imo State had on June 17, 2021 arrested Okolie, same day she sat for 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME) in the same state.
In June 23, 2022, when Justice Haliyu granted every relief sought in favour of Okolie and awarded the said amount in punitive and general damages caused to her by the Nigerian police.
Despite several attempts by Okolie to enforce the judgement, including letters and official representations written to the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, the police continued to defy the court’s order leading to her counsel to take further legal steps.
Okolie’s lawyer, Samuel Ihensekhien, said that the AGF’s refusal to attend to the case forced them to seeking the intervention of a vacation judge.
Ihensekhien said, “The action by the AGF was what culminated into our filing of this case, where the court, today, being August 18, 2022, in an interim ruling, ordered and granted two reliefs.
“The court gave an order compelling the AGF to grant Okolie consent to enforce her judgement against the police, and aid her garnishee any of her awarded judgement funds in any public or financial institution owned by the Nigeria Police Force.
“Also, that on receipt of the above orders in the interim, the AGF should with immediate effect, commence the administrative steps and or the grant of the above orders shall be deemed grant of consent in line with section 84 of Sheriff’s and Civil process Act to enable Okolie garnishee or collect her judgement sum in any financial institutions, where the Nigeria police has an account.”
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