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Ex-Militant, Government Tompolo Says He Is Yet To Recieve Court Summons

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Former Niger Delta leader, Government Ekpemupolo who is also known as Tompolo, says he is yet to receive the summons of the federal high court in Lagos which threatened to order his arrest if he does not appear before it on Thursday January 14th.?

Speaking through his spokesperson, Paul Bebenibo, Tompolo said he was yet to receive the court summon.

“We have not seen the court summons, but there is no problem as long as the Nigerian judiciary is working,” he told TheCable…

EFCC is investigating Tompolo over a N?13 billion land he sold to the Federal government for the construction of Nigerian Maritime University. According to the antigraft agent, the land transaction was fraudulent.

A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered an ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, to unconditionally appear before it on Thursday to answer 40 counts of alleged N13bn fraud levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Tompolo had been charged on Tuesday with an amended 40 counts of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering alongside an ex-Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi.

Justice Ibrahim Buba granted the order to compel Tompolo’s appearance in chambers on Tuesday shortly after the amended charges were filed in court.

The judge, in a copy of the order sighted by our correspondent, held, “That an order is granted to the applicant (EFCC) issuing a summons to compel the appearance of Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) before this honourable court having been alleged to have committed the offences as contained in the body of the charge.

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