BY SEYIFUNMI LUMEKO
The suit by former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Joy Nunieh against Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Godswill Akpabio will receive a hearing by Rivers State High Court on August 13.
Nunieh who sued Akpabio had alleged that she was being trailed because of her summons by the House of Representatives committee on NDDC following a probe of the commission’s accounts.
She went to the court with an exparte application seeking protection from alleged arrest. Nunieh urged the court to restrain the respondents or/and their agents from inviting or arresting her pending determination of the case.
Meanwhile, at the court on Thursday, while the police and DSS were in court Senator Godswill Akpabio was absent.
Efforts by Nunieh’s lawyer to amend a section of the suit were frustrated by the police, who said they were yet to be served the process.
Inegu, however, insisted on not allowing the amendment until she had studied the document, and so urged the court to grant a short adjournment.
Justice Thompson granted the request and adjourned the case till August 13