By Soni Daniel & Onozure Dania

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has filled a two-count charge of obstruction of justice and attempting to pervert the course of justice against,  Mr. Ricky Tarfa, SAN.

In the EFCC charge, Tarfa is accused of willfully obstructing two authorised officers of the EFCC, Moses Awolusi and Sanusi Mohammed from arresting Gnanhooue Sourou and Nazaire Odeste, who were suspected to have committed economic and financial crimes in contravention of Section 38(2) (a) of the EFCC Establishment Act of 2004.

In count two, he was accused of engaging in improper communication with Justice M. Yunusa of the Federal High Court Lagos between May 11 and June 25, 2015 while the case between the EFCC and two others was ongoing.

Meanwhile, Tarfar, yesterday approached a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to compel the EFCC and his acting chairman, Ibrahim Mustapha Magu to pay him N2.5billion compensation less than 24 hours after he was granted an administrative bail from his incarceration at the EFCC office.

Tarfar was accompanied by 32 Senior Advocates of Nigeria led by the former President, Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Chief Wole Olanipekun.

The Senior Advocate, is also asking the court to compel the defendants which included Moses Awolusi, the operatives that  arrested him and the Deputy Director Operations, EFCC, Lagos office, Iliyasu Kwarbai, to release his two mobile handsets deceitfully collected from him on Friday, February, 5 2016 at their Ikoyi office in Lagos to the court for the purpose of destructing all information, data and other retrievable materials stored in the two handsets.

He also urged the court to direct the defendants to release his Mercedes Benz SUV with registration No. KJA 700CG  which was unlawfully seized from him.