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Lagos lawyer, Adegboruwa, arraigned, remanded in EFCC custodyRamon Oladimeji

The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission on Thursday arraigned a
Lagos-based lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, for allegedly dealing in a landed property in defiance of a court order.
Adegboruwa was arraigned on one count alongside one Jonathan Udeagbala, said to be at large, before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of a Federal High Court in Lagos.
In the charge, marked FHC/L/181c/2016,
presented before the court by its
prosecutor, Idris Abdullahi, the EFCC
claimed that Adegboruwa and Udeagbala dealt in a property "lying, being and situate at House 105, Nicon Estate, Lekki, Lagos," without the authorisation of the EFCC.

According to the anti-graft agency, the said property was a subject of litigation before Justice C. A. Balogun of the Lagos State High Court.
The EFCC claimed that on August 13,
2013, Adegboruwa and Udeagbala leased the property in defiance of an order of interim injunction made by Justice Balogun on June 18, 2012, concerning the property.

The defendants were accused of leasing the property to one Shelf Drilling Nigeria Limited in the sum of N61,631,944.65, which the EFCC claimed was credited to Adegboruwa's account with Zenith Bank. The prosecutor claimed that Adegboruwa and Udeagbala committed an offence punishable under Section 32(1) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004. But upon reading the charge to him, Adegboruwa pleaded not guilty, following which his lawyer, Mr. Emeka Etiaba (SAN), urged the court to grant him bail on self recognition.
Etiaba assured the court that his client would neither jump bail nor interfere with the prosecution's witnesses, noting that Adegboruwa was a man "who fights for the downtrodden."
Etiaba added, "He is a parish pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church, Lekki, and by his calling, he ministers every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and sometimes Saturday.

"He runs a robust legal firm in Lekki, and I know, as a matter of fact, that about 50 per cent of the cases in his law firm are pro bono for indigent citizens." The SAN stressed that there was no possibility that his client would interfere with the prosecution's investigation since the prosecution had already concluded
its investigation, which it began in 2013.

In her ruling, Justice Oguntoyinbo,
however, said she was reluctant to admit Adegboruwa to bail on self recognition. Rather, the judge granted him bail in the sum of N10m with two sureties in like sum.
The sureties, the judge said, must be
landed property owners in Lagos, whose bank account details and office and residential addresses must be verified by the court's registrar.
While adjourning till June 13, 2016 for
commencement of trial, Justice Oguntoyinbo ordered that Adegboruwa should be remanded in the custody of the EFCC pending the fulfilment of the conditions attached to the bail granted him.
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