£2m wristwatches seized from Diezani, Omokore’s wife -EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has said it seized wristwatches worth £2m from the wife of the Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited, Mr. Jide Omokore, and a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke.

The anti-graft agency seized a wristwatch worth £1.4m from Omokore's wife, while a wristwatch worth £600,000 was seized from Alison-Madueke, a source at the agency told one of our correspondents.

The source said the agency seized
expensive jewellery and the wristwatches during various raids on houses of some suspects on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, and other places.
The source added that the items seized from the suspects would be displayed to journalists in Nigeria.

The firm of Omokore, who was quizzed in January by the commission, was one of the companies that allegedly received
multi-billion dollars worth of public
assets without due process from the
Jonathan administration.

The company, which was established in 2010, had reportedly not explored any oil when it was curiously awarded
controlling stakes in two lucrative oil
blocks, OML 30 and 34, for just over
$50m each.

The deal, which was signed by Jonathan's Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, gave Atlantic Energy Limited a controlling 55 per cent stake The former minister had been interrogated by the Metropolitan Police on issues relating to money laundering.

The EFCC source said the commission
had started analysing information on
Nigerians, including the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and others mentioned in the Panama Paper leaks.

It was gathered that the commission had seized one hospital equipment known as MRI, Medical Resonance Image, from a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd). The equipment is worth N2.6bn.

The EFCC had previously recovered over N2.3bn cash from Amosu, while
properties worth over N1bn had been
seized from him.

Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

Comments

10 ISSUES RAISED BY SEN. BUKOLA SARAKI DURING WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE

POLICE SUE FOR SUPPORT OF PARENTS IN FIGHTING AGAINST CRIME

The Cross River State Police Command has expressed concern over the high rate of proliferation of arms and light weapons among young youths, with a call on parents to be vigilant about the activities of their wards both within and outside their immediate environment. The state Commissioner for Police, Hafiz Inuwa, made this known while speaking at the State CID in Calabar the Cross River State Capital while parading 17 young men with different kinds of arms and ammunition arrested by the police for ranging offences. He Emphasised that security is a collective responsibility and parents have a greater responsibility to this effect. Other items recovered by police included, plasma televisions, gadgets, locally made pistols, army jungle caps among other items. Some of the crimes they were arrested for included, armed robbery at the University of Calabar Staff quarters and different locations in the state, attempted kidnapping, unlawful possession of firearms and cultism...

UNILORIN PRODUCES 89 FIRST CLASS GRADUATES

Prof. AbduGaniyu Ambali, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, said on Friday that the institution had produced a total of 89 first class graduates for the 2016/2017 academic session. The Vice-Chancellor made this disclosure in Ilorin on the occasion of a handover and valedictory press conference, which signaled the commencement of the 33rd convocation ceremonies of the university. In his address entitled: “You are great”, the VC said that the university was thriving academically, going by the quality and quantity of research works embarked upon by lecturers. He gave a breakdown of the graduating students thus: 89 First Class Division, 1,932 Second Class Upper Division and 3,727 Second Class Lower Division. The VC also said that 1,309 of them graduated with Third Class Division, 117 with ordinary pass while there were two aegrotat graduating students. While handing over to Pro...

9JATRAFFIC

Search This Blog