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.

Saad Omo\'ya     Ramat Oganija     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Ilofa     Omu-aran     Hassan A. Saliu     Solomon Edoja     LABTOP     Ahmed     Toyin Sanusi     Earlyon Technologies     Abubakar Baba     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Pacify Labs     Saka Isau     Idowu Laro     KSIRS     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Ballah     Oke-opin     Hamidu Olowo     Lanre Aremu     New Model Police Station     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Bashir Badawi     Na\'Allah     Moses Rahman Popoola     Olatunji Bamgbola     Oba Abdulraheem     Aliyu Muyideen     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Bature Bello     Ishola Abdullahi     Saka Keji     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     International Aviation College     Lateef Alagbonsi     Okasanmi Ajayi     A.O. Belgore     Adijat Adebiyi     Modibo Kawu     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     MalHub     Tsaragi     Mohammed Abduraheem     Muazam Nayaya     Florence Saraki     Afeyin-Olukuta     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     UNILORIN Alumni     Tunde Yusuf     Yashikira     Yemi Osinbajo     Halimat Yusuf     NIRSAL     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Sambo Murtala     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Olusola Saraki     Awili Pedro     Tosho Yaqub     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     QuickWin     Ubandoma     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Tayo Awodiji     Read With Me     Abraham Ojo     Ado Bayero     BECE     Ishaq Salman    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Tosho Yaqub     CACOVID     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Obuh     Olosi Of Osi     Moses Rahman Popoola     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Tunde Saad     Ado Ibrahim     LABTOP     United Nigeria Congress Party     Medview Airlines     Jebba     Muhammadu Gobir     Taofeek Sanusi     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Sabo-Oke     Obasanjo     Lawal Olohungbebe     IYA YUSUF     Senate President     Oko-Olowo     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Al-Hikmah Radio     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Yahaya Dumoye     Niyi Osundare     Yusuf Abubakar     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Sidikat Akaje     Emir Of Lafiagi     Mufutau Olatinwo     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     Rotimi Oyedepo     Yusuf A. Usman     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Samuel Adaramola     Curfew     Salman Jawondo     Lateef Fagbemi     Kazeem Oladepo     Shola Odetundun     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Bankole Omishore     Senate Presidency     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Idowu Aremu     Elekoyangan     Yakub Lai Gobir     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     General Hospital     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Alfa Yahaya Road     Jimoh Akani     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Surajudeen Akanbi     Oja-Oba     Aremu Bose Deborah     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Ayoade Akinnibosun     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Laboratory-to-Product     New Naira Notes     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Valsolar Consultoria     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Ibrahim Abikan     University Road     Tunde Oyawoye     Kwara State Fire Service     Shururat Olatinwo     Ita-Ore     Yakubu Danladi