The suspended Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla has explained the reasons behind his rushing to the courts. Obla stated in the suit he filed on Tuesday at the High Court to challenge his Certificate forgery and extortion alleging that the ICPC boss, Prof. Bolaji Owansewoye was too close to the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
In the suit marked HC/ABJ/CS/980/2019 Obla contended that the ICPC had no powers to invite, arrest, detain, investigate or prosecute him in connection with alleged falsification of academic certificates.
Through his lawyer, Mr. Faruk Khanagan, Obla also filed an ex-parte application seeking an urgent hearing of the suit. The embattled Obla had linked his travails to the investigations he launched against some influential persons and organization.
