FG confiscates Tompolo’s property

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has dismissed an appeal filed by Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, seeking to set aside the decision of the Federal High Court, Lagos, which empowered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to attach all the properties belonging to the ex-militant.
Justice I. N. Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos, had on February 19, 2016, made an order attaching Tompolo’s properties for failure to appear to answer the charges against him.
The EFCC had on December 15, 2015 instituted a criminal charge against Tompolo and nine others over allegations of fraud at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency.
However, despite substituted service of the Court Summons effected on him, Tompolo refused to appear in Court.