Two staff of the office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Yahaya Yusuf Ayodeji and Mohammed Dogon Yaro Audu, implicated in a N1billion World Bank Government Integrated Financial Management Information System, GIFMIS, fraud are to be arraigned before a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Jabi, Abuja, on Tuesday, May 26, 2015.According to facts emanating from the anti-graft agency, the EFCC, the duo allegedly took advantage of their offices by using the payment platform to award contracts to their companies and those of their cronies The World Bank GIFMIS Project is warehoused in the OAGF. The companies that were discovered…
Author: Kunle Edun
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, May 22, re-arraigned Opeyemi Ajuah, Majope Investment, Abdullah Alao, Axenergy, and Olarenwaju Olalusi before Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, on eight-count amended charge of conspiracy, forgery and obtaining money under false pretense.The suspects were first arraigned before the same court for allegedly obtaining the sum of N1,110,049,444.35( One Billion, One Hundred and Ten Million, Forty Nine Thousand, Four Hundred and Forty- Four Naira, Thirty- Five kobo) fraudulently as subsidy payments for 15,206,733 metric tons of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from the Federal Government.At Friday’s re-…
The case involving a former governor of Bayelsa State , Timipre Sylva, being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice A. Y Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja , has been adjourned till May 27, 2015.Sylva along with Francis Okokwo, Gbenga Balogun, and Samuel Ogbuku, allegedly used three companies – Marlin Maritime Limited, Eat Catering Services Limited, and Haloween-Blue Construction and Logistics Limited to move about N19.2 billion from Bayelsa State coffers between 2009 and 2012, under false pretence of using the withdrawn money to augment salaries of the state government workers. Since the matter began…
The alleged case of wrongful dismissal brought against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by two of its former employees: Juliet Ibekaku, former assistant director, Legal and prosecution and Michael Nzekwe, prosecutor in Legal and Prosecution Department, before Justice Babatunde A. Adejumo of the National Industrial Court, NIC, has been adjourned to May 27, 2015.It will be recalled that, the case was initially scheduled for Monday, May 18, 2015 but, had to be shifted to today for undisclosed reasons. This is the second time within a week, the case will suffer such shift in similar circumstance. Ibekaku and Nzekwe were…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday May 20, 2015 arraigned Chidi Alozie before Justice U.N Agomoh of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt on a 4-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence.The accused was alleged to have collected the sum of One Hundred and Thirty Two Thousand Naira (N132, 000.00) from one Joseph Nicodemus Etete sometime in 2014 to facilitate his employment into an oil company. He pleaded not guilty to all the count charge. One of the counts read, “That you Chidi Alozie and another (now at large) between January 2014…
The attempt by Imaobong Akon Esu-Nte, an accountant with the Nigeria Prisons Service to frustrate a case of conspiracy, forgery, abuse of office and money laundering brought against her and two others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today failed as Justice E.S Chukwu of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja frowned at a motion by the defendant challenging the competence of the court to hear the matter.The trial judge warned against any attempt to frustrate the speedy determination of the case and adjourned to Monday, May 25, 2015 for hearing on the motion. Etsu-Nte is being prosecuted…
Afanda Bashir Emmanuel, the first prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Chidi David Adabanya and 11 others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today revealed how the accused persons squandered approximately N2 Billion meant for the community gas project, among Shell Consultants and officials of the Bayelsa state Urban and Regional Planning Department.At the resumed hearing on Tuesday May 19, 2015, Emmanuel, a staff of EFCC, who was led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN. told the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Ademola Adeniyi, that the matter was reported to the Commission…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 arraigned one Obiejogo Raymond Azuka before Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Gwagwalada, Abuja on a six count charge bordering on forgery.Obiejigo, a Higher National Diploma holder from Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra allegedly forged a reference letter purportedly from the Honourable Minister of Finance, Dr. (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala alongside his curriculum vitae requesting for employment into the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC; Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND and Nigerian Security Printing and Minting, NSPM. One of the counts reads: “That…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 18, 2015 arraigned one Opara Edmund and his wife, Amarachi Opara before Justice O.O Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court Owerri, Imo State on a 2-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence. They pleaded not guilty to the charge. The accused persons were alleged to have collected money from one Okechukwu Ogbonna to the tune of Seven Million Naira (N7, 000,000.00) for a phony land deal situated at Federal Low Cost Housing Estate 11 Umuguma New Owerri. It was further revealed that the said land which was sold to …
The alleged case of wrongful dismissal brought against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC by two of its former employees: Juliet Ibekaku, former assistant director, Legal and prosecution and Michael Nzekwe, prosecutor in Legal and Prosecution Department, before Justice Babatunde A. Adejumo of the National Industrial Court, NIC, could not hold on Monday, May 18, 2015 for unstated reasons.Ibekaku and Nzekwe were dismissed by EFCC for desertion which is a serious offence against discipline going by the provisions of Section 43(e) (i) of the EFCC Staff Regulation which states that, “Any officer who wilfully absents for twenty one (21)…