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The commission, in a statement, said its Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, stated this during a courtesy visit by staff of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency to the commission

Agbakoba had on May 15, 2013 urged the court to quash the charges against Ogunbambo on the grounds that “the applicants are charged by counts 1, 2 and 3, under the Advanced Fee fraud and other Fraud related Offences Act 2006, being an Act of the National Assembly

At the resumed hearing of the matter on Monday, counsel to the accused persons, Norrison I. Quakers, SAN, told the court that he had on July 5, 2013 filed an application challenging the jurisdiction of the court although the application was not yet in the court’s record

At the resumed hearing of the case on Tuesday, counsel to Ogunbambo, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, was represented by a junior counsel who informed the court that Ogumbambo was indisposed and was not sure he would attend the court session

However, Ajibola Oloyede, counsel to the second and fourth defendants, challenged the admissibility of the documents, saying it was generated through a computer

The accused who were re-arraigned before Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos High Court were Downstream Energy Sources Limited, Alhaji Adamu Aliyu Maula, Rocky Energy Limited, George Ogbonna and Emmanuel Morah.