The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned 10 persons and a vessel, MV Peace for their alleged involvement in illegal oil bunkering before Justice Muhammad B. Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos on a three count charge bordering on conspiracy and illegal dealing in petroleum products.
MV Peace and its crew members - James Abatan, Wasiu Abdul Owonikoko, Patrick Ameh, Johnson Ademola, Felix Otto, Chigozie Oguike, Olu Salisu, Jomo Gadagbe, Kunle Oba Saheed and Rasheed Adio were intercepted about five nautical miles off Lagos Fairway Buoy by the Nigerian Navy Ship Ikot-Abasi on the 4th of April 2015 on suspicion of illegal dealing in petroleum products.
Count one and two of the charge reads:
Count 1:
“MV Peace, James Abatan, Wasiu Abdul Owonikoko, Patrick Amen, Johnson Ademola, Felix Otto, Chigozie Oguike, Olu Salisu, Jomo Gadagbe, Kunle Oba Saheed and Rasheed Adio on or about the 4th day of April, 2015 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court conspired amongst yourselves to commit an offence to wit: dealing in petroleum products without appropriate licence and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 3 (6) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Cap M17, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 and punishable under Section (1) (17) of the same Act.”
Count 2:
“MV Peace, James Abatan, Wasiu Abdul Owonikoko, Patrick Amen, Johnson Ademola, Felix Otto, Chigozie Oguike, Olu Salisu, Jomo Gadagbe, Kunle Oba Saheed and Rasheed Adio on or about the 4th day of April, 2015 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court without appropriate licence dealt with 200 Metric Tons of Petroleum product and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section (1) (17) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Cap M17, Law of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.” The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charge when read to them. In view of the plea of the accused, the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo prayed the court for a trial date and to remand the accused in prison custody. However, counsel to all accused persons, Dada Awosika said he had filed an application for bail and prayed the court for a short adjournment for hearing. Justice Idris ordered that the accused persons be remanded in Ikoyi prison and adjourned the case to Monday 27 July, 2015 for hearing on the bail application.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity 23rd July, 2015
35 comments:
Their cup don full....
Nawao!
Gus people very stupid and jobless fools.
Okay good
Thank God na mixture of Yoruba $ Igbo, so one can hear word from those noise makers on Lib!
Lol the way EFCC and DSS are parading people for corrupt practices, thank God I've not seen anyone I know.
~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA
Dat one with pot belly must be a yoruba man....too much of beer! Oops....no disrespect tho..
Na hunger b this thife thing wey dey reign for na, orna greed?.. As u decide to find shit chop shit u hear?
Mtcheeewww ole..
Seen/Heard/Whatever.
Ok
***odikwa risky nd tyt***
Lol Men are not smiling.
I'm out. ***CATCH ME IF U CAN***
They don enter one chance...I laugh in swahili. kikikikikikikikiki
Criminals, if you see them in the club they will be spending like money maker. Una own don RED this time around.
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Ok nah
***odikwa risky nd tyt***
EFCC the ogas at the top are stealing billions of naira and dollars barrels of oil is being missing every now and then and no one is going after them, are they above these laws.
Abeg live this men jo. Partiality
Ghenghen
Oga o
D real thieves are out dia flying around d globe in private jets............na 4 dese hustling men body una power dey strong............see people fathers.........am not in support of dis action. Buh I wish justice could be served around d table wit everyone receiving his/her portion.
D-PinPointer Says: Thanks to Buhari's administration; this tells you that Jonathan was a really crook and couldn't careless about how others were raping the country's treasury.
Dem don enter one chance motor be dat, cos now is not a good time to be caught. Linda take note!
Ok seen
Awon ole, God don catch dem
Good job.
~D great anonymous!
EFCC should go and catch d top oil bunkers TJ danjuma and co...they should stop oppressing d poor ones abeg.. EFCC who collect bribe pass una Rubbish!
EFCC should take several seats joor and leave this men hustling hard to keep there family intact,they should go after the thieves which are the politicians and government officials not wasting there time msplacing priorities
My Year Of Linda's 100k
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They are just messengers working for their bosses.
EFCC becoming more active. If only our prosecution state,was faster
These are small fry. The Nigerian Navy cannot touch the big guns who have military top shots on their payroll. We all know who they are. But will their kinsman risk upsetting them?
Most times u sound silly.
Try to be a lady..sometimes.
Let the case be diligently prosecuted and feed the public back on the outcome.
They should b punished accordingly so dat dis wil serve as deterrent to others.
Yet ministers walk about in their konkosa and illegally steal and sell oils in the numbers!
A good start.
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