Injuction Retraining Edo State Govt. from Implementing Covid-19 Vaccination Policy Forged - Court

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By Lucky Isibor


The purported injuction from the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt restraining the Edo State government from implementing its Covid-19 vaccination policies in the state is said to have been forged as the court has no record of such order. 

The discovery was made when
the Fundamental Human Right case filed against the Edo State government in respect of COVID19 vaccination came up today 17/9/2021, before the Federal High Court, Port-Harcourt. 


The Applicant, represented by Chief E.O Odey Esq, leading S.C Eziefule Esq, reported to court that the Edo State government has been disobeying the court's Order of injunction in the case. The Hon Judge denied making any order of injunction and then went through, reading aloud, the court's record but could not find any such order. 

The Applicant's counsel insisted he has an enrolled order of injunction signed by the judge. The court then asked the Registrar of court to read out in open court all the enrolled orders of court in the court's file. Finding no order of injunction, the Hon judge asked the lead counsel whether he was in court the day such alleged ExParte Order of injunction was made, to which he replied that it was his junior that came to  court. The judge then asked the junior to address court about his source of the purported enrolled order. The junior said he was the one who took the enrolled order given to him which did not contain an order of injunction back to the court Secretary telling the secretary that it was an omission and got the secretary to add the order of injunction. At that point, the Hon Judge ordered both counsel into the dock and was about sending them to prison when Mr. Ken E Mozia SAN, who was in court intervened to profusely apologize on behalf of the lawyers and pleaded passionately with the judge to pardon the reprehensible conduct of the two lawyers in the interest of cordial Bar/Bench traditional rapport. He was joined by Mr. Wole Iyamu SAN and Chief Femi Falana SAN to plead for mercy. Eventually the lawyers were pardoned by the Presiding Judge, Hon Justice A.T Mohammed and warned against such conduct. 
Today being the last day of Federal High Court  Vacation Court sitting, the case was transferred back to the Benin Judicial Division of the Federal  High Court.                     

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