HURIWA Kicks as Federal Govt Secures Order to Seize 40 Ekweremadu’s Properties *Says move plot to jeopardize bail application in UK Court Alex Enumah in Abuja Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Associatio
Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria , has faulted the move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to temporarily seize 40 properties belonging to a former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.
Although, Ekweremadu and wife had pleaded not guilty to the charge claiming that the alleged victim was not a minor and voluntarily offered to donate part of his organ for the Ekweremadu’s daughter who is currently sick in a London hospital.
The interim forfeiture order covers 10 Ekweremadu’s properties in Enugu, three in the United States of America , two in the United Kingdom , one in Lagos, nine in Dubai and 15 located in the Federal Capital Territory. “We equally recall that the petition against Senator Ekweremadu, which he claimed was politically motivated, was lodged against him at the EFCC in 2016, but the Senator’s first brush with the anti-graft agency only came in the early hours of July 24, 2018, when operatives of the agency and a retinue of security agents laid siege to his Apo Legislative Quarters official residence without any previous invitation.
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