A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted permission to Kingdom Human Rights Foundation, a civil society group, to commence its lawsuit seeking the arrest and sacking of Minister of Transport Rotimi Amaechi and Minister of Science and Tech. Ogbonnaya Onu over allegations of corruption.
The plaintiff is requesting that the court grant an order of mandamus compelling the Department of State Service (DSS) and the EFCC to arrest and prosecute the two ministers.
Additionally, according to Punch, the group is seeking an order of mandamus that would compel the President, Muhammadu Buhari, to sack both ministers.
“A plaintiff seeking an order of mandamus under the judicial review of administrative action/inaction procedure is required to first seek and obtain the leave of court through an ex parte application to properly commence the suit.”
The court granted the plaintiff its leave on December 1.
Mr. Amaechi and Mr. Onu are alleged to have attempted to influence court decisions, according to Supreme Court justices Sylvester Ngwuta and Inyang Okoro. The judges made the allegations after being arrested in October for alleged corruption.
According to the judges, they were arrested because they refused to decide court cases in the favor of Amaechi and Onu.
Mr. Ngwuta alleged that Mr. Amaechi asked him to sway the Supreme Court judgments on the Ekiti and Rivers States gubernatorial elections in favor of the APC.
The judge further alleged that Mr. Onu asked him to influence a Court of Appeal case over the 2015 Ebonyi State governorship elections in favor of the Labour Party candidate.
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