A Lagos Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Saliu Saidu, has granted the request of the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to temporary seize a storey building located at number 24, Abiye Street, Satellite Town, Lagos.
The building is owned by a Lagos businessman, Mr. Nwike Gibson, who is being investigated by the anti-graft agency on offences of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretenses.
The order of the court was premised on an application filed before the court by the EFCC seeking such order pending the outcome of investigation into the alleged offences.
Justice Saidu, upon reading the affidavit of the exparte originating summons, and affidavit of urgency, both sworn to by Garba Sani an operative EFCC of Lagos office, with written address and Exhibits attached thereto and filed at the court registry, and after hearing Ayokunle Fayanju, counsel for the complainant move in terms of the application and ordered; “It is hereby ordered as follows; “that the property set out in the schedule hereto, that is; a story building located at 24, Iya Abiye Street, Satellite town Lagos, been the property of the persons currently being investigated by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for the offences of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretenses be in the interim attached and forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.”
The EFCC in an affidavit deposed and sworn to by one of its operatives, Mr. Garuba Sani, and filed before the court by the EFCC’s counsel, Mr. Ayokunle Fayanju, the deponent alleged that the commission on May 20, 2013, received a petition written and signed by Femi Shadamaro, a business Manager, Corporate Banking Group, Apapa Trade fair; and Mr. Ramon Alabi, Head of Fraud Unit/ Internal Audit of First Bank Plc., against Chinulu Nwike Gibson and his company, NC Gibson International Limited, and one Kazeem Waheed of MD Logistics Limited, involving the sum of N100 milion.
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EFCC gets court order to seize debtor’s property
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