Warri based legal practitioner, rights activist and stalwart of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Barr. Robinson Ariyo has lambasted the Delta State Government over its seeming unpreparedness to send representation in the suit filed at the High Court of Justice, Delta State of Nigeria, Warri Judicial Division by Communities of Itsekiri extraction against the Delta State Government and the Delta State House of Assembly.
Barr. Ariyo who spoke to Our Correspondents Thursday November 12 in Warri shortly after the case was adjourned to December 16, 2015, declared that the Court will proceed with the case if the State Government and Delta State House of Assembly fail to show up on the said date.
The claimants: Emmanuel Afinotan, Cyril Egbejule, President General and Secretary of Utonlila Community Trust respectively, acting for themselves and on behalf of Utonlila Community, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State and Prince Metsese Diden, Choice Olueh, Ugborodo Community in suit No: W/331/ 2015, are contending that the process of enacting the new Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC law was done without any reasonable hearing on the outcome of the public hearing proceeding its passage, adding that the new law is inconsistent with section 162 (2) of the 1999 constitution and as such seeking an “order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants (Delta State Government and Delta State House of Assembly) their servants, agents and privies, howsoever designated from collecting and /or individually dealing and /or further dealing, further transacting and /or further spending any part of the 13% Oil derivation fund accruing to the target areas”.
Our Correspondents report that those present at the court included The Principal Legal Officer of DESOPADEC, Fedede Labo and a Senior Legal Officer of the Commission, Mr. Emmanuel Orioghwo.
Fedede Labo told Fresh Angle International in an exclusive chat that parties in the case were undergoing settlement, noting that they will be back in court if no agreement is reached.
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