The Federal Government,
yesterday, failed to open its case against former Minister of Niger
Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, who is facing corruption charges
before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT.
Orubebe was in the charge, alleged to have falsely declared his assets while in office as a public officer. Orubebe docked
Government alleged that he failed to declare his ownership of two choice property in Abuja.
More so, he was accused of collecting bribe of N70 million from one
Pastor Jonathan Alota, the owner of a company, Chemtronics Nigeria
Limited.
The charge against him was initiated by the Code of Conduct Bureau,
CCB, through the office of the Attorney General of the Federation .
Government had on November 26, 2015, when the matter came up for
trial, applied for an adjournment to enable it to amend the charge
against Orubebe.
However, when the matter came up yesterday, another lawyer who
appeared for the government, Mr. E.A Orji, told the tribunal that
Orubebe’s case-file had been transferred to the Department of Public
Prosecution, DPP, at the Federal Ministry of Justice.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, has arrested a former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda, for his alleged involvement in the sharing of the N450m allocated to Zamfara State out of the $115m deposited in Fidelity Bank Plc. by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, during the 2015 general elections. Yuguda is one of the former ministers in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan who are being investigated by the anti-graft agency. Yuguda, in his statement, on Wednesday, May 11, 2016, admitted to have collected N450 million in his capacity as a chieftain of the PDP, in his state. The former minister, who hails from Zamfara State, also stated that he supervised the sharing of the money in his home. According to him, a former Secretary to the Zamfara State Government and member of PDP Presidential Campaign Committee 2015, Aminu Ahmed Nahuche, collected the sum of N450m ...
