Stella Oduah and BMW
TVC E, NEWS – A Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, against the Attorney General of the Federation and three others.
Oduah had filed the suit praying the court to restrain agencies of the Federal Government from questioning or prosecuting her over the purchase of two armoured BMW vehicles worth N255 million that’s about 1.3 million dollars.
Oduah claimed to have already been probed and exonerated by the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation and the EFCC.
She urged Justice Abang to declare that any further probe would amount to violating her fundamental rights.
Oduah alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress intended to use the respondents to persecute her, being a prominent member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
But the EFCC denied doing the bidding of the APC, claiming that it was independent.
Justice Okon Abang, who dismissed Oduah’s suit for want of jurisdiction today, ordered her to pay a cost of N15,000 to the AGF.
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