This was as he said it was the counsel for the anti-graft agency, one Rotimi Oyedepo, who urged the court to make such order. According to the Head of Chambers of Rickey Tarfa & Co, Mr John Olusegun Odubela, in a statement, Justice Muhammed Idris, in his short ruling, ordered as follows: “That no party to this suit shall take any step to foist a fiat accompli on the court or any act that will have the effect of rendering nugatory any order the court will make at the conclusion of hearing.” He further ordered that “the respondents shall, in the interim, preserve the rights of the applicant as provided for in the constitution and the African Charter and Peoples Rights, pending further hearing of this application.” On the request of Oyedepo, Justice Idris categorically ordered that “the court has no jursidiction to give any order that will prevent the free flow of charge No. LD/2417C/16.” Tarfa had filed the suit against the anti-graft agency and his acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu, asking for N2.5 billion due to his illegal arrest and detention. Aside the monetary compensation, Tarfa also asked the court to compel the defendants, which included Moses Awolusi, the operatives that illegally arrested him and the Deputy Director Operations, EFCC, Lagos office, Iliyasu Kwarbai, to release his two mobile handsets, deceitfully collected from him on Friday, February 5, at the Ikoyi office in Lagos to the court, for the purpose of destructing all information, data and other retrievable materials stored in the two handsets. He also sought an order, urging the court to direct the defendants to release his Mercedes Benz SUV with registration No. KJA 700CG, unlawfully seized from him. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria also asked the court to order EFCC, Magu and two other defendants to publicly apologise to him in, at least, two widely-circulated national newspapers, social media and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), as well as Channels Television within 24 hours from the day of the judgment of the suit. Besides, he asked for an order of perpetual injunction restraining all the defendants and their agents from further violating his rights apart from the payment of N20 million for the cost of this suit. The 52 -paragraph affidavit in support of the suit was sworn to by Mr Odubela, who narrated the genesis of Tarfa’s ordeal as a witness to the gestapo tactics employed by the anti-graft agency. Friday’s ex-parte motion was argued by Chief Bolaji Ayorinde, with the following Senior Advocates of Nigeria with him— Babajide Koku, Dr Joseph Nwobike, Abiodun Jelili Owonikoko, Adeniyi Adegbomire and former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Ogun State, Mrs Abimbola Akeredolu. The court adjourned till Februay 19 for the continuation of the matter.]]>