Not news that a senior advocate would file a fundamental rights
suit and he withdrew it.
On Tuesday 16th Feb., 2016 PM, I sent this text message to
our learned colleagues on my contact list.
“Tarfa admitted it, EFCC tags the N225,000= a bribe to Yunusa J.,
Tarfa called it a donation for the funeral rites of the Judge’s father-in-law Alhaji Damasa.. . In law
“donation” is an inducement so it is a form of bribery . Tarfa having admitted
the essential components of the crime (bribery is a crime) it does not lie in
his mouth to say breach of privacy. You cannot be involved in human trafficking
and shipping children abroad and say privacy”?...”
A week after Tarfa files notice of discontinuance of his N5Billion
breach of privacy lawsuit. I am not
taking credit for it afterall I am not a counsel to any of the parties except a
public interest commentator.
But it is only a Lawyer Chief Olanipekun SAN that would show
interest in a Tarfa’s case and they would not know how to define “bribery”.
They didn’t even know that donation amounted to inducement in the circumstances
of the matter until perhaps I pointed it out in my text messages to them. Then
followed withdrawal of the lawsuit. There is still the other fundamental rights
suit pending where a second affidavit was deposed to say Tarfa didn’t give
N225,000 to Yunusa J., after plaintiff’s deposition that he did give the Judge
the donation some of his friends contributed towards father-in-law’s. This
morning’s critique shames the legion of unserious SAN of corrupt practices. Look at the merit of your case, try win some respect write clean
pleadings and conduct your forensic advocacy unless these are no longer SAN requirements nowadays. Scrap it then.
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Rickey Tarfa withdraws N5bn suit On
February 25, 20167:07 amIn NewsComments 52 Shares 3121 By Innocent Anaba Lagos
lawyer, Mr. Rickey Tarfa, SAN, yesterday, withdrew the N5billion fundamental
rights suit he filed against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited and others.
Tarfa had alleged the violation of
his rights to privacy by the respondents. Other defendants in the suit were
EFCC acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, Mrs. Rashidatou Abdou and Femi Falana, SAN.
Following the withdrawal of the suit, the trial judge, Justice Mohammed Idris
awarded a punitive cost of N10, 000 against Tarfa in favour of each of the five
respondents.
Tarfa had filed the suit following
his arrest on February 5 by EFCC operatives on the premises of the Lagos State
High Court in Igbosere, where he allegedly hid two suspects in his car to
prevent their arrest. His two mobile phones and his Mercedez Benz SUV with
Registration No. KJA 700 CG, were confiscated by the EFCC. Tarfa alleged that
the respondents violated his right to privacy by allegedly scrutinising his
call logs.
He therefore urged the court to
declare that the respondents violated his right protected by Section 37 of the
Constitution, when, without a court order, MTN allegedly made the call log on
his mobile line, 08034600000, available to the EFCC and the others respondents,
who in turn allegedly released the information to Sahara Reporters and other
online media.
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Carol Ajie <carolajie@gmail.com> wrote:
Rickey Tarfa denies credited account belongs to a Judge On February 24, 201610:10 amIn News Comments 108 Shares 6611 By Innocent Anaba Lagos lawyer, Mr Rickey Tarfa, SAN, who initiated a N2.5billion fundamental rights suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in which he is challenging his arrest and detention, as well the seizure of his phone and car, has told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that the N225,000 allegedly paid into Justice Mohammed Yunusa of a Federal High Court, Lagos, was a lie, as the said money was paid into the account of a former staff of the chambers, Mohammed Awwal Yunusa.In an affidavit of urgency deposed to by Head of Chambers, Rickey Tarfa SAN and Co., Mr. Segun Odubela, he averred that a former staff of the chambers, Mohammed Awwal Yunusa, an indigene of Kogi State was the owner of the Access bank account the EFCC had earlier averred belonged to Justice Yunusa, where its alleged a sum of N225,000 was paid in by Rickey Tarfa as bribe. Mr. Odubela averred that Mohammed Yunusa was following the case of his former employer through media outlets where he immediately noticed that the account No. 0060351694 referred to in the counter affidavit as filed by EFCC in response to the substantive suit was his account number.Mohammed Awwal Yunusa in his own deposition, averred that he recalled that a Rickey Tarfa’s Access bank counter cheque No. 00002065 dated January 7, 2014 for N225,000 was issued to him and he was paid as he collected the value in his Access bank account No 0060351694 held in his name, Mohammed Awwal Yunusa. He further averred that at the Abuja office at No 2, Librevile Street Off Aminu Kano Crescent Wuse II, Abuja on February 22, 2016, he was contacted by the office accountant, Mr. Samaila Malgwi, who had checked the office records and informed him that the cheque issued to him for N225,000 was the only cheque issued by Tarfa and Co. on January 7, 2014.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/rickey-tarfa-denies- credited-account-belongs-to-a- judge/
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