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CONTEMPT EX FACIE CURIAE - PROCEDURAL STEPS FOR DEALING WITH CONTEMPT COMMITTED EX FACIE CURIAE

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"Since contempt outside the precincts of the Court is quasi-criminal in nature, every procedural step (the vega modus prosequiandl must ex necessitate) be followed strictly and strictly complied with. Accordingly, the appellants ought to have been arrested, charged before the Court and full trial conducted and the offence proved beyond reasonable doubt and if found guilty, punished in accordance with the Law,Omoijahe v. Umoru (2000) FWLR (pt. 29) 2401, 2406; Ogboni v. Ojah (1989) 1 NWLR (pt.100) 725; Alesinloye v. Oyediran (1999) 12 NWLR (pt.63) 491; Ojeme & Ors. v. Momodu II (1995) Chief Tom Ikimi v. Godwin Omamuli (1995) 3 NWLR (pt.387) 335; Military Governor of Kwara State v. Rufus Afolabi (1991) 6 NWLR (pt.196) 212; Oyeyinka v. Osague [1994] 2 NWLR (pt.328) 612; Awobukun v. Adeyemi (1968) NWLR 299; Gloria Nya v. Madam Eme Bassey Edem (2005) 4 NWLR (pt.973) 345 at 367 -369; Deduwa and Ors v. The State (1975) 1 All NLR (pt. 1) 1; Boyo v. Attorney General Mid-West State (1971) 1 ALL NLR 342, 352". PER C. C. NWEZE, J.S.C.
 
 
PER C. C. NWEZE, J.S.C.

 IN THE CASE OF INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION & ANOR v. EJIKE OGUEBEGO &2 ORS; LER(2018): SC.116/2017

   
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