Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is currently on the verge of moving to jail as an FCT High Court had convicted him and slammed some jail time on him for contempt of court.
The conviction had also come following the failure of the EFCC to comply with a court order which had asked it to return a Range Rover and the sum of ₦40 million to one of the applicants in a suit.
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In her ruling, Justice Chizoba Oji had also held that the anti-crime Commission boss has committed contempt of the orders of the court made on November 21, 2018. The court order had also directed EFCC to return to the applicant his Range Rover (Super charge) and the sum of ₦40, 000,000.00 (Forty Million Naira).
“Having continued wilfully in disobedience to the order of this court, he should be committed to prison at Kuje Correctional Centre for his disobedience, and continued disobedience of the said order of court made on November 21st, 2018, until he purges himself of the contempt,” the court ordered.
The judge also ordered the Inspector General of Police to ensure compliance to the court order forthwith.
Ojuawo had, in the motion filed by his lawyer, R.N. Ojabo, in a suit marked: FCT/HC/CR/184/2016 argued that the EFCC refused to comply with the order for the release of his seized property, made by the court in a judgment delivered on November 21, 2018.
In another report, an investigating officer working with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Shehu Shuaibu yesterday told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos that the ₦4.6bn allegedly transferred into a Joint Trust account was used to finance the 2015 presidential campaign of the former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan.
Shuaibu made this known while testifying before Justice Daniel Osiagor on Friday in the trial of former Minister of Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman; former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, and two others over alleged money laundering and other offences related to fraud and stealing.
However, drama began when during cross-examination by Usman’s counsel, Mr Ferdinand Orbih (SAN), he said his team from the Special Task Force of the EFCC, did not invite former President Jonathan throughout their investigation.
The witness admitted that the first defendant, Usman, was the Director of Finance for President Jonathan’s Campaign Organisation, while the second defendant, Fani-Kayode, was the Director, Media and Publicity of the organisation.