Ethnic youth leaders across the country and lawyers have dragged the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Dapo Segun, to the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, following the failed rehabilitation of refineries.

The applicants in the suit are seeking mandatory removal, arrest, investigation, and prosecution of the CFO in connection with the failed revival of the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries as well the acquisition of the OVH Energy by the NNPCL.

The aggrieved stakeholders in the suit named the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as the first defendant and prayed the court to make an order directing the EFCC to probe the activities of Segun.

The suit named Ezekiel Amadi, Bamidele Moses, Amaefule Innocent as the applicants for themselves and on behalf of the Ethnic Youth Council.

The applicants through their lawyer, M.O Osuji, are asking the court to make ?an order granting leave to the applicant to bring an application for mandamus directing the 1st defendant to commence investigation of the activities and role of the second defendant as the Chief Financial Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, in connection with the acquisition of the of OVH Energy by the NNPCL and rehabilitation of the PortHarcourt and Warri refineries?.

They are also ?seeking an interim order of the court directing the second respondent (Dapo Segun) to forthwith step aside as the Chief Financial Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and cease the performance of any duty pertaining thereto, tampering with or altering any documents or records material to the investigation into his conduct and/or role in the acquisition of the of OVH Energy by the NNPCL and rehabilitation of the Port-Harcourt and Warri Refineries, pending the hearing and determination of the Substantive Motion on Notice for Judicial Review?.

The applicants further demanded an order of court granting Leave to the Applicant to serve the motion on notice for judicial review and any other process(es) in this Suit on the second defendant by substituted means to wit: delivering all the aforementioned court processes to the Legal Department of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited at its head office at Central Business District, Abuja. AN ORDER OF COURT directing an accelerated hearing and determination of this Suit.? (The Nation)

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