There were indications yesterday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a 39-count charge bordering on fraud against the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji.
This, however, comes as the trial of former managing director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, resumed with more revelations of how the bank’s money was lodged into the defendant’s company.
But the 39-count charge, which according to a source close to the anti-graft commission, was filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos, centred on the alleged ₦7 billion belonging to the assembly, which Ikuforiji allegedly misappropriated.
It was gathered that the speaker, who any moment from now would be arrested and taken to court to face the charges, was to be arraigned alongside three others.
Those to appear in court with the embattled speaker are a member of the House, the Clerk of the Assembly and the Accountant, whose name could not be confirmed before going to press.
It would be recalled that the anti-graft commission had recently invited Ikuforiji to its office in Abuja, where he was quizzed over misappropriating the sum of ₦7 billion belonging to the Assembly.
The invitation was immediately followed by a raid on the Assembly by operatives of the commission where, what it called, valuable documents were carted away from the office of the Speaker and the assembly’s accounts department.
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