The trial of Mr Oronsaye and his co-defendants, started over six years ago with his first arraignment on charges involving the alleged...
He is being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on 22 charges of multibillion-naira pension fraud.
The former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team , Abdulrasheed Maina, was indicted in the case but has been tried and jailed in a separate trial over similar charges by another judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja. Mr Okeanya-Inneh requested the judge to discharge and acquit him from the charges on the ground of lack of evidence and merit.
The court held that the EFCC failed to prove the allegation that he used his position as the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Financial Action Task Force set up under President Goodluck Jonathan’s government to divert the N190 million in public funds.Mr Oronsaye and his co-defendants in the pension fraud case were first arraigned and pleaded not guilty to the charges before Gabriel Kolawole, then a judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on 13 July 2015.
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