Drama as Ex-NIMASA Boss is Forcefully Re-arrested Outside Court

 

It was like one of those scenes we see in movies when security operatives, on Monday, re-arrested a former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi, outside the premises of the Federal High Court on Oyinkan Abayomi Drive in Ikoyi, Lagos, Punch reports.

 

Akpobolokemi, who was dressed in white on Monday, had just been released from the prison custody on Friday after he perfected a bail of N50m granted him by Justice Buba.

 

He was whisked away by mobile policemen and plain clothes operatives, who bundled him up and forced him into an awaiting bus just as he stepped out of the court premises. 

 

He had resisted the move to re-arrest him, claiming that he was on bail, but he was pushed, overpowered and bundled into a waiting bus by security operatives, while his lawyer, Dr. Joseph Nwobike (SAN), looked on helplessly.

 

His re-arrest came shortly after his trial over alleged N2.6bn fraud before Justice Ibrahim Buba was adjourned till January 18, 2016. Aside his ongoing criminal trial before Justice Buba, there is another N3.4bn fraud charge pending against him and nine others before Justice Saliu Saidu of the same court, which has been adjourned till January 29, 2016.