The Federal High Court in Lagos has approved the Federal Government’s request to temporarily sieze 12 landed properties linked to a former...
The Federal High Court in Lagos has approved the Federal Government’s request to temporarily sieze 12 landed properties linked to a former Director of Finance at the Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Jacobs Adigun.
The properties include houses at No. 27 Agodogba Avenue, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos; No. 40A Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; Plot 164, Victoria Island Annex , VI, Lagos; Block 54A, Plot 14, Lekki Peninsula Scheme One; Capador Plaza, Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Wuse II, Abuja; Plot 762 Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja; and No. 39 Agdez Street, Wuse II, Abuja.
The judge agreed with EFCC counsel Rotimi Oyedepo that it would be in the interest of justice for the court to order a temporary forfeiture of the properties.Oyedepo persuaded the court that the properties, scattered across Lagos and Abuja, were reasonably suspected to be proceeds of a N21.
He adjourned till June 9 for anyone with interest in the properties to appear in court to give reasons why the properties should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.
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