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Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Resigned Air Marshal Amosu, Others To Plead Guilty To Corruption And Return N2.8b And 33 Properties

 


Previous Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (rtd.); Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun, previous Chief of Accounts and Budgeting of the Air Force; and Air Commodore Olugbenga Gbadebo, previous Air Force Director of Finance and Budget, are to together relinquish 33 properties furthermore confess to the charges recorded against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

As per THE PUNCH, these are a piece of the request deal conditions given by the EFCC.


The daily paper additionally reported that the charged persons have returned over N2.8billion to the Federal Government and have had properties seized from them. A part of the sums followed to them was recouped from Adigun's better half, while Gbadebo has returned N190m.

Transactions in appreciation of the request deal are said to be in advancement, with the charged persons made to comprehend they will need to lose properties obtained with the N22.8billion they purportedly stole. Whenever reached, Rotimi Oyeyipo, the EFCC legal advisor taking care of the case, neither denied nor affirmed the terms of the supplication deal. In a phone discussion with SaharaReporters, the legal counselor said he couldn't put forth an official expression yet in light of the fact that the counter unite organization and the guard counsel have not met since Friday, July 8 when the court suspended the case.

A portion of the properties seized incorporate Capadar Plaza on Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja, with an estimation of N980m; a private chateau on Lake Chad Street, Maitama, Abuja, esteemed at N450million and an official manor at Imo River Close, off Danube Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, esteemed at N710million. Additionally seized is a four-unit patio house on Agadez Street, off Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2 (esteemed at N720million; a yet-to-be-finished 35-room lodging on Salt Lake Street, Maitama, Abuja; a package of area situated at Bourdillon Street, Ikoyi, Lagos; a square of 12 administration pads situated on Agodogba Street, Park View Estate, Ikoyi (esteemed at N1.8billion); a quarry in Bwari zone of Abuja( esteemed at $694,000); a house on Adeyemo Alakija Street, GRA Ikeja (esteemed at N250m); and a duplex at House 11, Peace Court Estate, GRA Ikeja (esteemed at N110m). Essentially reallocated are a N40million property situated at NAF Harmony Estate, Asokoro Base, Abuja; a five-bedroomed house at Valley NAF Estate, Port Harcourt (esteemed at N33million); Solomon Hospital on Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Ikeja ( hardware esteemed a$2.15m); a N95m house on Umaru Dikko Street, Jabi in Abuja; a fish ranch worth N10million; a N20million poultry in Lagos; and a school known as Bloomsville International School, Divine Estate, Isheri Olofin, off Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

THE PUNCH likewise reported that two London houses possessed by Adigun and Amosu will likewise be seized.

"A disconnected house worth £875,000 (N333, 375, 000) at 93b Shirehall Park, London, NW42QU professedly having a place with Adigun and another house at 50 Tenterden Grove, NW41TH supposedly having a place with Amosu and worth £1m (N381m) are likewise anticipated that would be relinquished to the Federal Government," reported the paper.

The properties, purportedly bought in 2014, are said to have a present estimation of N1.2billion.

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