One of the counts reads: “Abumere Joseph Osagie and Jamila Ojora on or about January 27, 2016 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court, corruptly accepted the sum of N5,000,000.00 ( five million naira) from one Senator Ahmed Datti as a gift for having done a tax assessment for Baze University
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One of the counts read: “That you Rickey Tarfa SAN on the 29th day of January 2014 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this honourable court intentionally gave the sum of N1, 500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira only) to Hon. Justice Nganjiwa Hyeladzira Ajiya of the Federal High Court directly from your Zenith Bank Account No. 1002926967 in order that the said judge acts in the exercise of his official duties
He has been accused of being part of those who benefitted from the $2.1 billion meant for the purchase of arms for the battle against the Boko Haram insurgency by the military in the North East of the country
Lamido, who is being prosecuted alongside his two sons, Aminu and Mustapha, and two others allegedly abused his position as governor between 2007 and 2015 by awarding contracts to companies where he had interest, using his two sons as fronts
Oronsaye has been under the radar of the EFCC for another fraud case over which he has been slammed with a 24 counts charge of money laundering
He said: “I arrived in Enugu from Abuja after attending an agricultural conference in China and decided to honour the invitation, which came to my office in my absence
His words, “Honestly, when Nuhu was handling EFCC, he handled it in such a way that people coined the saying that ‘ the fear of Nuhu Ribadu is the beginning of wisdom ‘ and then the question you will ask is, how did we go down? How did we lose that? “Nuhu Ribadu is still here, he’s still alive
Some of the counts reads : “That you Rickey Tarfa [S.A.N] on the 29th day of January, 2014 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, intentionally gave the sum of N 1,500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira only) to Hon. Justice Nganjiwa Hyeladzira Ajiya of the Federal High Court directly from your Zenith Bank Account No.1002926967, in order that the said Judge acts in the exercise of his official duties
The witness, Rita Ifeadi, is a manager at the Bar Beach branch of Zenith Bank, where the accounts of the Committee on International Shipping and Port Security and other companies that are alleged to have benefited from the disbursement of committee’s funds are domiciled
“Olanipekun claimed to be the handler of a vessel called Mt Zohor Atlantic and on September 19, 2014, Chinweze gave him N1.6 million to lift crude oil from Nigeria to Ghana
Ibrahim Magu, the acting Chairman of the EFCC, made the commendation on Wednesday while receiving a delegation from the UK under the aegis of Parliamentary Committee on International Development, which was on a visit to the Commission’s head office, Abuja
This followed a report to plenary by the Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, headed by Senator Sam Anyanwu, that Lamorde had refused to honours its invitation to respond to an allegation that he converted over N1 trillion retrieved from suspects to personal use
He said the petition was from the office of the National Security Adviser, which alleged that the office, transferred N400 million to Destra Investment Limited, a company owned by Metuh, when retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki was the NSA
At the resumed hearing of the matter on Thursday, prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, led three witnesses Yahaya Mohammed Yusuf and Wakili Dauda, both bureau de change operators, and Olamide Ogunsanya, an Assistant Director with NIMASA, in evidence
In the course of the investigation, the Committee wrote a letter of invitation to our client as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), inviting him to a meeting with the Committee on 5th November, 2015. Owing to prior engagements, our client could not attend that meeting and this was duly communicated to the Committee. However, on the 9th of November, 2015, our client was relieved of his duties as the Chairman of the EFCC and he handed over all obligations, duties and responsibilities pertaining to his office to Ibrahim Mustapha Magu, who was appointed Acting Chairman
According to Magu, his comments and activities of the Commission should not be interpreted to mean a blanket indictment of all lawyers and judges but rather directed at a few bad eggs within the system
The bulk of the money was said to be those retrieved from a former Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun, and late Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha
Lamorde had refused to honour several invitations of the Committee to answer charges brought against him while in office.
Specifically he was accused of diversion of N1 trillion recovered loot
Onoja urged the court to declare that his client’s arrest and continued detention by the EFCC since February 11 was unconstitutional and violated his right to personal liberty guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution
At the resumed hearing on Tuesday, the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, led in evidence one Uchenna Emenalo, younger brother to Emeka Emenalo, the owner of O2 Services Limited, the company that was allegedly used to divert part of the proceeds from the Committee on International Shipping and Ports Security in NIMASA