Diezani fraud scandal: Court remands Kwara lawmaker

Date: 2017-06-19

A Lagos State Magistrates' Court in Igbosere has ordered that the lawmaker representing Edu /Moro/Patigi constituency of Kwara State at the House of Representatives, Aliyu Pategi, be remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The court, presided over by Mrs. Afolashade Botoku, made the remand order on Friday following an application to that effect by the EFCC.

The EFCC had told the judge that Pategi stood surety for a former Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, who has a pending criminal charge against her before the Federal High Court in Ibadan.

The EFCC charged Akinjinde with money laundering, alleging that she collected N650m out of the $115m doled out by a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezaani Alison-Madueke, to compromise the 2015 general election.

Pategi was said to have, on August 10, 2016, entered a bail bond of N650m to secure an administrative bail for Akinjinde, but the former minister was said to have jumped the bail. The EFCC said Akinjide's non-appearance had stalled her arraignment in the charge marked FHC/IB/26C/2017 before the Federal High Court in Ibadan with the court threatening to strike out the charge should the EFCC fail to produce her. On Friday, the anti-graft agency dragged Pategi before the magistrate court in Lagos, asking him to show cause why he should not forfeit the N650m to the Federal Government.

Counsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo, said the motion on notice seeking forfeiture of Aliyu's N650m was filed pursuant to Section 6(6) of the constitution and Section 132 (1) -(3) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.

In a six-paragraph affidavit filed in support of the motion on notice, an operative of the EFCC, Danladi Daniel, said "That an intelligent report was received sometime in 2016 that Oloye Jumoke Akinjide and others benefited the total some of N650m from the proceeds of gratification received by the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, from various oil marketers such as Northern Belt Oil and Gas Company; Actus Integrated Investment Limited; Midwestern Oil and Gas Company Limited and Adesanya Leno Olaitan which money were kept with Fidelity Bank.

"I know, as a fact, that in the course of our investigation and based on discoveries made against Oloye Jumoke Akinjide of her involvement in the crime, it became imperative to invite her to come and shed more light on her role and involvement in the crime, an invitation which she honoured and during which she volunteered her statement.

"That on the 9th of August, 2016, the respondent herein (Aliyu) approached our office with a written application seeking for the bail of Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide with the undertaking to produce her whenever her attention is needed." Daniel said Aliyu's application for Akinjide's bail was approved and he entered a bail bond of N650m stating that he would forfeit the sum should Akinjide jump the bail.

He said upon conclusion of investigation, the EFCC filed a charge marked FHC/IB/26c/2017 against Akinjide and two others.

They were charged with 24 counts bordering on money laundering.

He, however, said, "all efforts made by officers of the application (EFCC) to get Oloye Jumoke Akinjide to come and stand her criminal trial proved abortive and we have contacted the respondent herein (Aliyu) who stood as her surety to produce Oloye Jumoke Akinjide in accordance with the terms of the bond but he has woefully failed to do so.

"The applicant (EFCC) has now brought this application seeking the forfeiture of the recognisance entered by the respondent (Aliyu) on behalf of Oloye Jumoke Akinjide."

After hearing the application on Friday, the magistrate, Botoku, adjourned till June 20, 2017 for ruling.

Aliyu's counsel, Adenrele Adegborioye, made an oral application for the release of his client, urging the court to note his status of as a federal lawmaker.

But the magistrate, who insisted that the bail application had to be formally made, ordered that Aliyu should be remanded in the custody of the EFCC.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kawu Baraje     Salman Jawondo     IQRA College     Abdulhakeem Amao     Suleiman Abubakar     Sulaiman Gado     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Pacify Labs     AGF Abdulrazaq     Olaoye B. Felix     Quareeb     Abubakar Usman Jos     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Chief Imam Of Offa     Lanre Olosunde     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Maryam Nurudeen     Wasiu Odewale     Shuaib Olarongbe     Saidu Isa     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Kuliyan Geri     Tunde Oyawoye     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Ilorin International Airport     Bayo Ojo     Haleeman Salman     Umaru Saro     Okala Baba     Akeem Olatunji     Tayo Alao     Ladi Hassan     Kola Bukoye     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Umar Adelodun     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Jide Ashonibare     Mary Arinde     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     FOMWAN     Sam Onile     Aliyu Umar     Tope Daramola     Ilorin General Hospital     Tsaragi/Share     Oba Abdulraheem     Ado Bayero     Mukhtar Shagaya     Muhammadu Buhari     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Old Oyo     Owo Arugbo     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Olayinka Olaogun     Elerinjare-Ibobo     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Bayo Onimago     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Tafida Of Ilorin     Bola Tinubu     Opobiyi     Halimat Yusuf     Ayobami Seriki     March 28     Pilgrims Board     Bello Abubakar     Naira Redesign     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Clara Nwachukwu     Maigidasanma    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Omoniyi Ayinla     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Al-Hikmah University     EFCC     Pakata     Olayinka Are     Oluwole Dupe     Moses Adekanye     Kehinde Baale     Press Release     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Bureau Of Lands     Modupe Oluwole     Tafida Of Kaiama     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     National Party Of Nigeria     Harafat E. Mukadam     Owu Fall     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Adijat Adebiyi     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Alliance For Democracy     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Tsado Manman     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Bluenile Associates     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     KWATMA     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Madawaki     Temitope Ogunbanke     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Ajayi Okasanmi     Kawu     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Iyeru Grammar School     Obuh     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Lukman Adeloyin     Otuka     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Kwara State Sports Commission     Ben Duntoye     Hassan A. Saliu     Hamza Usman     Olayinka Olaogun     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Shettima Of Ilorin     Agbarere     Oni Adebayo     Bolakale Ayo     Share/Tsaragi     Rasaq Jimoh     Oloyede     Kumbi Titiloye     Okanlawon Taiwo     Rashidi Yekini     NFAI     Ayinde Oyepitan     Alao Ayotunde     Memunat Monsuma     Plat Technologies Limited     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Timothy Akangbe     Kwara Volleyball Association     Akanji     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Rueben Parejo     Ayinke Saka     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Adeleke Ogungbe