A Federal High Court in Lagos has
dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by a former
Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, against the Attorney General of the
Federation and three others.
Justice Okon Abang, who dismissed Oduah’s suit for want of jurisdiction today, ordered her to pay a cost of N15,000 to the AGF.
Oduah had filed the suit in August last
year praying the court to restrain agencies of the Federal Government
from questioning or prosecuting her over the purchase of two armoured
BMW vehicles at a cost of N255m by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority
under her watch as the Aviation Minister in 2013.
In her suit, Oduah claimed to have
already been probed and exonerated by the House of Representatives
Committee on Aviation and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
and urged Justice Abang to declare that any further probe would amount
to violating her fundamental rights.
