The criminal charges filed on Monday at the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere against a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Rickey Tarfa, have yet to be assigned to any judge.

Though the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission filed the charges at the court on Monday, our correspondent, who monitored the court on Tuesday, reported that Tarfa, who has since Sunday evening been granted an administrative bail, was not brought to court for arraignment on Tuesday.

Sources at the EFCC, however, told our correspondent that the commission was still perfecting its plans to bring the senior lawyer to court for arraignment.

The two counts filed against Tarfa by the EFCC bordered on willful obstruction of investigation by the anti-graft commission and attempt to pervert the course of justice.

The suspects, Nazaire Gnanhoue and Modeste Finagnon, both Beninoise, were alleged to have fraudulently converted some sophisticated manufacturing equipment belonging to one Rana Prestige Nigeria Limited to their own use.

The bid to arrest them by operatives of the EFCC on Friday was allegedly stalled by Tarfa, who allegedly hid them in his car.

In the charge against Tarfa, the EFCC alleged that he acted contrary to Section 38 (2) (a) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004.

The senior lawyer was also accused of acting contrary to Section 97(2) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State No II, 2011.

However, Tarfa, on Monday filed a fundamental rights enforcement action against the EFCC at the Federal High Court in Lagos seeking N2.5bn compensation for the alleged violation of his fundamental rights and his illegal arrest by the EFCC.

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