The Economic And Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, February 21, 2013 re-arraigned
Ifeanyi Anosike, Emeka Chukwu, Ngozi Ekeoma; Anosyke Group of Companies and Dell
Energy Limited before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of the Lagos State High Court
sitting in Ikeja, on an eight count charge bordering on conspiracy to obtain by
false pretence and forgery to the tune
of N1, 537,278,880.82( One Billion, Five Hundred and Thirty Seven Million, Two
Hundred and Seventy Eight Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighty Naira, Eighty-Two
Kobo), being payments fraudulently received from the Petroleum Support Fund for
a purported supply of 15, 000 metric tonnes of Premium Motor Spirit.
The re-arraignment of the
five defendants followed the elevation of Justice Habeeb Abiru, the first trial
judge to the Court of Appeal. The case was re-assigned to Justice
Onigbanjo before whom the defendants took fresh pleas. They all pleaded not
guilty to the charges. Defence counsel, Dr. Joseph Nwobike, SAN, told the
court that all the defendants had earlier been admitted to bail by the first
trial judge and prayed the court to allow them continue enjoying the bail on
the same conditions. EFCC Counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, did not object to
the prayers of Nwobike but sued for an early trial date.
Justice Onigbanjo
granted the prayers of Nwobike and admitted the defendants to bail on the
previous terms.
He adjourned the case till July 3 and 4, 2013
for commencement of trial.
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