How Range Rover, N40m Landed EFCC Chairman Abdurasheed Bawa In Kuje Prison
- Abdulrasheed Bawa, the EFCC chairman, has been convicted and remanded in Kuje correctional centre
- The chairman of the anti-graft agency has refused to obey a court decision that ordered the release of a Range Rover and N40m to one Rufus Adeniyi Ojuawo, who was discharged and acquitted in 2018 from bribery allegation
- Justice Chizoba Oji of the federal high court in Maitama Abuja ordered the inspector general of police Usman Alkali-Baba, to enforce the court order on Bawa
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FCT, Abuja - Usman Alkali-Baba, the inspector general of police, has been ordered to arrest and jail Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman, for his failure to comply with a court order.
Justice Chizoba Oji of the federal high court in Maitama, Abuja, gave the order as Bawa has refused to return a Range Rover and N40 million to an applicant, PM News reported.
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The judge rejected the argument of Francis Jirbo, counsel to the EFCC, to justify the refusal of Bawa’s refusal to comply with the order.
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“The Inspector General of Police shall ensure that the order of this honourable court is executed forthwith,” the judge directed Alkali-Baba.
The court had given the order on October 28 on a motion on the case filed by Air Marshal (AVM) Rufus Adeniyi Ojuawo, an ex-director of operations of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF).
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In a motion filed before the court by Ojuawo, the complainer argued that the anti-graft agency refused to adhere to a court judgement that ordered the release of withheld property in a judgment delivered on November 21, 2018.
Ojuawo was arrested and arraigned before a federal high court in Nyanya in 2016 for allegedly receiving a bribe of N40 million and a Range Rover from one Hima Abounakar of Societe D'Equipment International Nigeria Limited
But the NAF senior officer was discharged and acquitted because the EFCC failed to prove the allegations in 2018.
N4.6bn money laundering: Fani Kayode's trial resumes as EFCC witness drops string of revelations
Legit.ng earlier reported that the trial of the ex-minister of finance, Senator Nenadi Usman, former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode and two others have resumed in Lagos.
Before Justice Daniel Osiagor of a federal high court in Lagos, the trial resumed with testimony from an EFCC investigative officer, Shehu Shuaibu.
The trial is about alleged N4.6bn money laundering, which was allegedly transferred to a joint trust account to finance the presidential campaign of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan.
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