{"id":186791,"date":"2022-05-10T20:29:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=186791"},"modified":"2022-05-10T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:29:16","slug":"court-nullifies-malamis-committee-on-sale-of-forfeited-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/10\/court-nullifies-malamis-committee-on-sale-of-forfeited-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Court nullifies Malami&#8217;s committee on sale of forfeited assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal high court sitting in Lagos has nullified the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations 2019 for being &#8220;an invalid statutory instrument&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The court further nullified all sales and disposals of assets made by Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), under the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The order was given on Monday by the judge, <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa in a suit filed by the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) against the AGF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Malami had signed a new policy titled \u201cAsset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019\u201d, which empowers the federal government to determine procedures that anti-corruption agencies must adopt to manage recovered assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In November 2020, Malami set up an inter-ministerial committee\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">for the disposal of forfeited assets, following a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But HEDA, through its counsel, Omotayo Olatubosun, challenged the AGF\u2019s power to set up the committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It argued that the regulations conflicted with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act, Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administrative Act, 2015, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act, 2004 and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission Act (ICPC), 2000, among others, on the matter of disposal of final forfeited assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The plaintiff sought nine reliefs, including the nullification of all disposals of assets by the AGF\u2019s committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In its judgment, the court dismissed the AGF\u2019s preliminary objection argued by Tolu Mokunolu, his counsel, and granted all of HEDA\u2019s reliefs as prayed on the motion paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI am entirely in agreement with the submission of counsels to the plaintiff that the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019 are contrary to the statutory provisions of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/09\/efcc-arraigns-companys-md-for-alleged-n72m-fraud\/\">EFCC<\/a> Act, Trafficking in Persons Cohabitation Enforcement and Administration Act, NDLEA Act and Immigration Act,\u201d the judge said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cA careful perusal of the above statutory provisions will show the provisions for the Attorney-General of the Federation to make regulations for the agencies for disposal of assets under the various enactments listed above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe above statutory enactments are therefore the enabling source of the Attorney-General of the Federation to the regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cConsequently, the administrative powers to be exercised by the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation must flow from the enabling statutes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lewis-Allagoa said the powers of the AGF do not override the provisions of the enabling statutes stabilising the powers of the law enforcement agencies and anti-corruption agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He said the powers referred to in the commencement clause of the regulations merely are to be exercised in accordance with the Acts and not to usurp the mandatory powers vested in the law enforcement agencies and the anti-corruption agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI am therefore in agreement with counsel for the plaintiff that the executive orders or any other forms of definition can be issued pursuant to session 315 of the Constitution; however, they are limited to enactments predating the 1999 Constitution,\u201d the judge added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe Acts under Consideration in this instant suit were enacted after the 1999 Constitution and do not fall within the ambit of session 315 of the 1999 Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIn all and for the reasons hereinbefore given in this judgement, the questions put for determination in the originating summons are answered in favour of the plaintiff and all the reliefs sought are granted as prayed. This is the judgment of the court read in the open court.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The plaintiff\u2019s reliefs granted by the judge include a declaration that by the ICPC Act, the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019 \u201cis an invalid statutory instrument the former having conferred no power arrogated by the Defendant to himself in the latter Regulations;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cAn Order nullifying the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019 as an invalid statutory instrument same being in excess of the provisions of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission Act, 2000<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cAn Order nullifying all sales and disposals of assets made by the Defendant pursuant to the said Asset Tracing, Recovery, and Management Regulations, 2019 same being ultra vires the office and powers of the<\/span> Defendant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal high court sitting in Lagos has nullified the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations 2019 for being &#8220;an invalid statutory instrument&#8221;. 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