"Ned Nwoko Set To Collect Over $390 Million For Services He Did Not Render" - Sowore Raises Alarm

Added: 2026-04-28

[00:00:00]Um this is a case that's been on since 2021. Was a case filed by >> Nigeria police on behalf of Senator Nuoko when he was in the PDP.

[00:00:13]Now he's in the APC and uh we just been filing motions to let the judge know that it's not a serious case. But today we are supposed to adopt all our motions. But the judge having been promoted to the court of appeals said he doesn't want to take any further down uh adoption of cases. He gave us another date end of June and uh but uh we congratulated the judge for his elevation to you know partial elevation to the court of appeal because hasn't been completed yet and we use the opportunity to tell him that the case is dead on arrival because this is one of those frivolous cases that our police has been engaging in that we warn them all the time not to spend police and national resources on these foolish cases and uh we are very confident that the case will not go anywhere and so we use the opponent to announce to the judge and uh that's that's pretty much uh the outing today but I don't know if the lawyers have anything to add. Yes, our lead lawyer is the mother.

[00:01:16]>> Make it clear that as part of this case and as part of role in society, we aware that Nedoko is planning to collect another 400 and something 390 something million >> for services that he already been paid for and the attorney general of the federation is in bed with him.

[00:01:37]>> Hear me loud. That's like the former.

[00:01:39]you are not paying that money to him. In fact, we are looking for how to recover the one he illegally took response.

[00:01:46]>> So that is probably the reason why he empowered the prosecutor again today because he has mentioned my name that I'm preventing the federal government from paying him. The federal government shall not will not pay Nuoko one more cobbo for services he did not render in the first place. And if they do, they will hear from us. Yes, >> they will help. It's our money. We are not going to be spending it on pedophiles.

[00:02:13]That's that's the problem that he's having with us now. That's why he has empowered all these policemen to be doing his bidding. But you know us even at the end of the day this grace will still come to you. It happened to Malami today who I met here alone.

[00:02:32]He was only followed by a member of his family.

[00:02:35]>> All of them. I called him. I say malame come here. Do you now see the nature of power that is very and the table has turned the table will turned against the co of this world it has turned against it will turn against very soon that is what I can assure you as long as we are citizens of this country called Nigeria and finally if they don't discontin the case now it will be discontinued when I become the president Federal Republic of Nigeria >> later and at that time they know what's up 2022 it was actually a police case but we knew that it was about the reputation of a politician that is the so-al >> we have been in court >> most of them don't have >> and surprisingly you know the question to be asked why is it that even as today we are still talking about the fact that we have motion and arraignment has not taken place.

[00:03:41]That is almost 5 years.

[00:03:44]The the lesson I think we should learn from this is that when people that are defending public interest, people that are defending public rights, they are brought before the court, their actions are criminalized. It is not the duty of public interest lawyers too to play along pretending that there's a process in place. It is our duty to also make sure that you are bringing somebody to justice. You have to clean your hands.

[00:04:15]If you don't do that, we will not help you. And that is so all the motions we are just thinking of taking today. These are motions that are challenging the duration of this court in 2022 and the prosecution has not been able to do an arraignment. Surprisingly today we have been a court since morning and there is an indication from the court that he will not take cases for adoption. It is this very day now said that he's very very ready. Even when the court said that he's taking for us to come back that is not going to take adoption. He said he's very ready to show that the wastefulness of public resources in matters like this has to be documented. This is one of those cases.

[00:04:54]The parliament of the country has decriminalized an action.

[00:04:59]The cyber crime of 2015 criminalized insult on individuals, insult on reputation. The amendment of 2024 removed this ingredient and the police is still coming to court to hold an individual to account on what the parliament has decriminalized.

[00:05:19]It is just a play. People are just coming to court to act comedy.

[00:05:23]>> But we are grateful that we are not tired. If we have been tired before now, if Mr. has been put to trial or has been put to an arraignment and has been remanded or has been convicted on a on a MATTER THAT THE PARLIAMENT has said is no longer a crime. What what what are we going what is our account to history but we are grateful today that we made that impossible.

[00:05:45]>> Exactly.

[00:05:46]>> We made it impossible and we are back to square one.

[00:05:49]>> A case that we strongly believe ought to have died with the old cyber crime acts.

[00:05:56]>> Absolutely. Now that case was filed when the previous act was in existence.

[00:06:04]That act has been criticized as attempting to gag free speech in this country. Agitations by human rights activists and civil society organizations ensure that this particular law was amended in 2024.

[00:06:21]That particular amendment has taken or has tracked the the kepetss from the bottom of that case and once that lead has been taken off that case ought to have died to do.

[00:06:36]But unfortunately uh Senator Nedoko and his friends in the city command has retained this matter in court for whatever reason and purpose they intend to serve. We do not know.

[00:06:51]But we are advising the current commissioner of police in the FCC that he ought not and he should not inherit a fight that has nothing absolutely to do with him or that has any grants of justice to fulfill or to meet.

[00:07:11]This case is spent. This case ought not to be in court at this time. That case was filed in conne between Senator Nedoko and the previous commissioner of police whom they whom they were in bed with. Now once we have a new sheriff in court, cases of this nature that does not serve any public purpose in line with the constitution must be discontinued.

[00:07:34]The court has given the hint today that this case ought not to be and I think it is appropriate that the prosecution in court today should go back to his office and advise his commissioner of police appropriately that this case is dead and this matter should be ended. It does not serve any purpose that we expend state resources millions of naira to pursue personal vendetta on behalf of personal and private individuals. If Senator Ned Woko felt that he has been defamed in that matter as pertains to what transpired about four to five years ago, he should approach the civil court. The senator Ned Woko has no right under the law, particularly under the cyber crime act as it then was and as it is now to use the instrumentalities of state resources to pursue a personal vendetta that pertains to his name and reputation. So this matter should as a matter of urgency be laid to rest. Time for us to continue to use state resources to settle personal scores of this type particularly as pertains to reputation and name of individuals. More particularly public individuals who has put themselves out in the public space should cease and should stop.