A copy of the court’s enrolled order sighted by our correspondent on Sunday showed that Justice U. A, Musale granted the interim restraining order on May 4, 2017 based on an ex parte application by a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim. The report indicting Anyim was said to have been submitted to the House of Representatives by the committee led by a House member, Mr. Herman Hembe. The report was adopted by the House of Representatives on March 16, 2017. Shortly after listening to Anyim’s lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), on May 4, Justice Musale directed that the House of Representatives and security agencies should not, in the interim, act on the House committee’s report. The judge ordered that the report should not be acted upon pending the hearing and determination of Anyim’s motion on notice seeking to make the restraining order to last till the determination of the substantive suit. The order of the court read, “An order of interim injunction restraining the respondents by themselves, or through any of the security agencies, privies or agents, from acting on the report of the House Committee on the FCT which was adopted on the floor of the whole House of Representatives on Thursday, March 16, 2017, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.” The affidavit deposed to by the litigation secretary in Ozekhome’s law firm, Mr Usman Salihu, gave the grounds for Anyim’s objection to the house committee’s report. One of the grounds was that Anyim, a former President of the Senate, was wrongly invited by the Clerk of the House Committee on FCT instead of the Clerk of the National Assembly. In addition, Salihu stated that it was brought to the attention of the house committee that its counterpart in the Senate had conducted its probe and issued a report which ‘not only exonerated the applicant of any wrongdoing, but also extolled his virtues and praised his efforts’. Another major platform on which the ex parte application was anchored was that Anyim ‘vehemently opposed’ Herman Hembe’s chairmanship and membership of the committee ‘and requested that he disqualified himself on the grounds of bias and personal animosity’ but that the house committee publicly rebuffed the request.]]>
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