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Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted an order restraining
the Nigeria Police and other Law
enforcement agencies from arresting the former Acting Managing Director of the
Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Joi Nunieh.
The
court presided over by Justice S.E Thompson also granted an ex-parte order,
restraining the NDDC and others from arresting Nunieh, pending the
determination of the matter in court.
Nunieh
sought the orders of Court through her counsel, Sylvester Adaka, the immediate
past Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, Port Harcourt Branch.
Joi
Nunieh, appointed into the NDDC in October 2019 and sacked February 2020 has
been involved in a series of controversy over her short stint at the Commission
which she blamed on the Minister of Niger-Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill
Akpabio.
She
had asked for the arrest of and prosecution of Akpabio by the Police, accusing
the Minister of oath-taking, sexual harassment, fraud and corruption at the NDDC.
Joi
Nunieh is currently taking refuge at the River State Government House Port
Harcourt after being rescued by Governor Nyesom Wike from Police arrest.
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