The Federal Government has filed two charges against the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and the Senator representing Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District, Albert Bassey Akpan for allegedly failing to declare some of their assets.
The charges marked FHC/ABJ/CR/62/2018 and FHC/ABJ/CR/88/2018 for Ekweremadu and Akpan respectively, were filed before the Federal High Court, Abuja on behalf of the Federal Government by the Okoi Okono-Obla-led Special Presidential Investigation Panel (SPIP).
The charge against Ekweremadu has been assigned to Justice Binta Nyako while Justice John Tsoho handles Akpan’s. Both judges on Wednesday, granted leave to the prosecution to serve the charges and other accompanying court documents on the defendants through the Clerk of the National Assembly.
The order for substituted service was granted by both judges after listening to prosecution lawyer, Celsus Ukpong who complained of difficulty in effecting personal service on the defendants.
After granting the orders for service through substituted means, Justice Tsoho fixed October 22 for the next hearing date in respect of Ekweremadu’s case and November 19 for Senator Akpan’s.
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