A Lagos-based lawyer, Festus Ogun, has asked the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, to obey the court order that committed him to prison.
Ogun said nobody was above the law, especially public officers who swore oaths of allegiance to defend and uphold the Constitution.
According to PUNCH, the EFCC Chairman, Bawa, was convicted by a Federal High Court in Abuja over contempt of court, and was subsequently sentenced to the Kuje Correction Centre in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The EFCC, through its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, had since said it would appeal the ruling.
Reacting in a statement made available to our correspondent in Lagos on Tuesday, the lawyer, Ogun, said Bawa “should immediately submit himself to officers at the Kuje Correctional Centre following his conviction for contempt and gross disobedience to court orders by my Lord, Hon Justice Chizoba Oji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court.â€