Awards N10m damages agaisnt Enugu Govt
By Tony Edike, Enugu
An Enugu State High Court presided over by Equity C.I Nwobodo has declared as illicit and unconstitutional the premature abstraction from office, the former Chairman of the Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board, ENSUBEB, Mrs. Ethel Nebo-Ezeabasili in 2012.In a ruling that lasted several hours, the Court withal awarded N10 million damages and a N100,000 cost against the Governor Sullivan Chime led Regime for illicit and unconstitutional actions against Mrs. Nebo-Ezeabasilli.
Mrs. Nebo-Ezeabasili had approached the State High Court in Enugu to declare her abstraction from office as illicit and unconstitutional and to award her damages over a trumped up allegation that she embezzled over N245 mllion Naira belonging to the Enugu State Regime.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Ethel Nebo-Ezeabasili who had fled the State over alleged endeavors on her life could not be reached to react to the judgment.
However, her lawyer Chief Tagbo Ike verbally expressed he was ecstatic that the endeavor to tarnish the integrity and reputation of his client built over the years had failed. He described the judgment as a “triumph of equity over iniquity and impunity”.
“This shows that evil and political tyranny will never prevail over truth, equity, and due process forever”, he stressed.
On his component, a civil society activist, Mr. Damian Okenwa described the judgment as victory for democracy.
He integrated: “The fact that the ruling was given by an intrepid and Honourable Equity of the Enugu State High Court against a sitting regime of the same State shows that the judiciary remains the last hope of the mundane man; and that all hope is not disoriented for this nation.
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