…says Buhari lost six years of fight against insecurity to former Service Chiefs
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Tuesday, attributed the rising spate of insecurity in the country to the retention, for far too long, of Service Chiefs who were no longer delivering as expected by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Frank who was reacting to what he described as the earlier reluctance and eventual sack of the Service Chiefs, as well as appointment of new ones in a statement in Abuja, lamented that despite a whooping one term and a quarter of Buhari’s administration (about six years), that the administration “has not achieved any decisive victory against Boko Haram, murderous herdsmen, bandits and kidnappers.”
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday ordered the final forfeiture of over N284 million linked to a former governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari, to the Federal Government.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) had arraigned Yari and two companies – Kayatawa Nigeria Limited and B.T. Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited for allegedly taking the money from Zamfara State treasury.
The commission alleged that the funds – $687,874.81 and N24, 289,522.89 – were lodged in accounts domiciled in Zenith Bank Plc and Polaris Bank.
At Tuesday’s proceeding, the ex-governor’s lawyer, U.Kelechi, argued that his client was rich before he assumed office in May 2011.
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA-The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Tuesday, ordered the final forfeiture of about a N700million linked to former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, to the Federal Government.
The forfeiture order followed an application that was brought before the court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC.
ICPC had alleged that the former governor kept the funds in two accounts in two new generation banks, using his companies – Kayatawa Nigeria Limited and B.T. Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited.
The Commission alleged that the money was siphoned from Zamfara State treasury.
Friday Olokor, Abuja
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered a final forfeiture of about N284, 306, 294.04 linked to a former governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari, to the Federal Government.
The money was said to have been lodged with Zenith Bank Plc and Polaris Bank.
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the FHC who gave the final forfeiture order said that Yari could not show how he made the huge sum of monies while or before serving as governor of the state (between May 29, 2011, and May 29, 2019).
Yari and two companies belonging to him (Kayatawa Nig. Ltd and B.T. Oil and Gas Nig. Ltd) were indicted for alleged fraud and were dragged to the court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other-Related Offences Commission.
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has advised the public to beware of a notice which says it is conducting a fresh recruitment exercise.
The ICPC Management, in a statement on Tuesday, disclosed that there’s no fresh exercise being conducted.
It said the one the Commission conducted last year already has a shortlist of those who met the preliminary criteria.
The statement read, “The attention of ICPC has been drawn to an advertisement regarding a purported recruitment exercise by the Commission.
“The notice in the media is in respect of the 2020 recruitment exercise which was suspended due to the COVID-19 challenges.