A Makurdi High Court sitting in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, yesterday struck out the application brought before it by Mr. John Tyokegh, who was indicted with 51 other persons by the Justice Elizabeth Kpojime Judicial Commission of Enquiry into the incomes and expenditure of the state between 2007 and 2015.
The governor, Samuel Ortom, constituted the panel to probe the incomes and expenditure of the state during the tenure of his predecessor, Gabriel Suswam, who was among the 51 other persons indicted by the commission’s report.
Delivering judgment on the matter, Justice Adam Onum said each of the prayers brought before the court by the applicant, Mr. Tyokegh, was incompetent as a fundamental rights process and deserved to be struck out. Justice Onum said there was profound merit in the points of objection raised by counsel to the Benue State Government, Moses Atagher against the competence of the application.
He, therefore, added that he saw no reason to touch on the various other grounds of objection, including the one bordering on the juristic personality of the third respondent, the Kpojime Judicial Commission of Inquiry.