A Federal Capital Territory High Court, presided over by Justice Adeyemi Ajayi, granted some mandatory orders toward aiding Glory Okolie to get the sum of N60 million earlier awarded to her by the FCT High Court which was presided over by Justice Haliyu.
On June 23, Justice Haliyu granted every relief sought in Okolie’s favour and awarded a sum of N60 million in punitive and general damages caused to her by the police.
The police, however, defied the court’s order despite several letters and official representations written to the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, by Okolie’s lawyer, which were not attended to, leading her counsel to take the matter to court for enforcement of the judgement.
Okolie’s lawyer, Samuel Ihensekhien had mentioned that the AGF’s refusal to attend to the case led them to seek the intervention of a vacation judge.
Ihensekhien said, “The action by the AGF was what culminated into our filing of this case, where the court, today, being August 18, 2022, in an interim ruling, ordered and granted two reliefs.
“The court gave an order compelling the AGF to grant Okolie consent to enforce her judgement against the police, and aid her garnishee any of her awarded judgement funds in any public or financial institution owned by the Nigeria Police Force.
“Also, that on receipt of the above orders in the interim, the AGF should with immediate effect, commence the administrative steps and or the grant of the above orders shall be deemed grant of consent in line with section 84 of Sheriff’s and Civil process Act to enable Okolie garnishee or collect her judgement sum in any financial institutions, where the Nigeria police has an account.”
