Justice Yargata Nimpar, who read the decision of the court, said the High Court, which tried him, did not properly evaluate the evidence before it
Browsing: Raymond Omatseye
Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia had found Omatseye guilty of 24 out of the 27 counts pressed against him by the EFCC and sentenced him to five years imprisonment without an option of fine
Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia had on May 20 sentenced Omatseye to a prison term of five years for awarding contracts above threshold while in office
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had charged Omatseye on 27 counts bordering on bid rigging and contract splitting
Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia has fixed May 9, 2016 for judgment in a case involving a former Director General of the…
Omatseye, who opened his defence on Tuesday, told the trial judge, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, that he believed the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), was persecuting him
Omatseye is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on an amended 27-count charge bordering on alleged N1.5 billion contract scam
Ofili-Ajumogobia, while dismissing the application for a no-case submission by the accused, ordered him to answer to the charges levelled against him
The fourth to ninth defendants in the suit are vessel operators, namely: Olimpex Nigeria Limited, Unibros Shipping Corporation, Africulti Limited, Marika Investments Limited, Nidas Marine Limited and Prometheus Maritime Limited
At the resumed hearing of the case on Monday, the prosecutor, Chief Godwin Obla (SAN), called the third prosecution witness, Aliyu Aliyu, a staff of the Bureau of Public Procurement
At the resumed hearing of the case, the prosecution witness and procurement officer with the Bureau for Public Procurement, Aliu E. Aliu, reviewed various documents already tendered by the prosecution as exhibit and told the court that all the approval for supply of goods in the documents before the court marked exhibit PD16 A-Y, were clearly above the stipulated threshold allowed the former NIMASA boss
Omatseye, a former Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, was arraigned on a 27-count charge of contract splitting and bid rigging
The witness, Ahmed Ibrahim, told Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia: “The contract for the purchase of BlackBerry smartphones was awarded by NIMASA under the leadership of the accused person and according to the records given to me during investigation, the BlackBerry contract award did not go through the board of NIMASA.”
pre-qualification and evaluation processes for the tender exercise.
Ahmed had earlier testified before the court that an award letter from NIMASA to one Kolal Riska International Nigeria Limited for the supply of office accessories at a contract sum of N4,930,000 was clearly above the stipulated threshold of less than N2.5 million allowed a Director General under the Public Procurement Act