Former governors and other senior government officials have stolen over N250 billion since the establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2003, a list released last week by the commission has shown.
The list, which has the names of 50 Nigerians, also shows the status of the cases against them. Top on the list are Ayo Fayose, Bode George, James Ibori, Saminu Turaki and Orji Uzor Kalu.
The commission, according to its chairperson, Farida Waziri, is also reopening in courts cases against some governors that appeared to have met a dead end.
The case of a former governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion, whose case was closed with a fine of N3 million out of an estimated N4.4 billion he allegedly embezzled, is one such case.
Mr. Ibori’s case, which is also feared to have died, has also been reassigned. There has been a lot of controversy on Ibori’s case, as his name was always missing each time a list of people being prosecuted was released.
Some Nigeria newspapers published a list of those being prosecuted about two weeks ago, and Ibori’s name was missing on the list.
A list without the right names
The EFCC spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said the published list was not the one released by the commission.
“This was the original list passed out and I was not aware his name was not on the list that was published,” he said. “But this is the list I passed out.” An EFCC agent said while the new list might put to rest allegations that Mrs Farida was protecting Mr. Ibori, it also raises questions as to how Mr. Ibori’s name was always missing when the list was published by the media.
The case of Gabriel Aduku, a former minister of health, has also been put under the spotlight as the court judgment has been put under review.
According to the list, while some of the suspects are still remanded in prison custody, some have since been granted bail by the court but are still undergoing trial.
Nicholas Ugbane, Ndudi Elumelu, Mohammed Jibo, Paulinus Igwe, Samuel Ibi, Aliyu Abdulahi, Simon Nanle, Lawrence Orekoya, Kayode Oyedeji, Lawrence Orekoya, Garki Jahun, Molkat Mufwang, Micheal Aule, Andrew Epkanobi, Alexander Cozman, Tom Iseogohi, Mohammed Buba, Mike Okoli, Albert Ikomi and Yuguda Manu Kaigama were all remanded in prison custody and nearly all of them have been granted bail.
The EFCC said apart from the cases of the former government officials, the commission has, in the last 11 months, recorded over 65 convictions in other cases such as bank fraud, advance fee fraud and cyber crime etc.
It said this figure represents just about one third of the number of convictions recorded by the commission in the last five years.
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Mecutiepie2 at 26-07-2009 07:53 PM (15 years ago) (f)
Yes they did and they got 3600 dollars of my money!! Nigeria and it's goverment are a very corrupt country!! You need clean up what is going on over there in those chat cafes and stop the damn scamming of hard working women that live from month to month!! Sell their damn computers and keyboards and shut down the chat cafes!! The scammers sure give your country a bad name!! I hope anyone that professses to be a CHRISTIAN and scammes someone out of money rots and burns in HELL!!
Mecutiepie2
Posted: at 26-07-2009 07:53 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
enjoyment at 26-07-2009 08:30 PM (15 years ago) (m)
mecu wetin u called ursef,...... na ur country pple na dem dey very greedy......u fit no get am
Metutiepie2 or whatever you did called yourself, get it straight into your head that it's your greedy country women that are criminal including you if not, how did they got $3600 from you...explain...
'In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King Jr ...
Posted: at 26-07-2009 08:30 PM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Mecutiepie2 at 26-07-2009 10:26 PM (15 years ago) (f)
You illerate jerkoff, you ask me how they got 3600 dollars from me, well I will tell you!!! One A*#S pretended to be someone other than who he was and fed me a line of bullshit about love, finally hit me up for 2900 dollars as his mother was sick and needed surgery for Bosom cancer and I tried to help his mother, he portrayed himself as a white man from the UK, that lived in the USA and was there on business! During this period of time I followed him wherever he went on the computer and finally he had to confess he was a black man from Nigeria, his name he uses is Fred Ndu! I met him on a dating site as [email protected] with a white mans picture on his profile!! He swore he would pay me back and never did he wanted me to be his Boo and said he had fallen in live with me, he hounded me for months and I told him I don't date black men!! The other man was the same situation, only he got 700 dollars from me as his daughter was sick, same senario, he went under the name of Charles Bello that lived in the US and was in Nigeria to see hias daughter who was living with his mother!! He went under the name lademinos@hotmail .com!! Anything else you want to say you illerate A*#S!! You are probably sitting in a chat cafe right now trying to scam someone!! It was a hurtful lesson for me to learn, but no other illerate A*#S will get another dime of my hard earned money even if he says he iss Jesus Christ, as I know He would not do anything like that to someone!! So phyuk off and get a job!!
Mecutiepie2
Posted: at 26-07-2009 10:26 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
Mecutiepie2 at 26-07-2009 10:38 PM (15 years ago) (f)
So you scamming bastards get an effing job and earn an honest living! You probably breed like rabbits!! You are not even capable of putting a sentence together, but can sure scam people!! I know that God forgives but he does not forget, He just bides His time till judgement day and everyone will be judged for the deeds that they have done in their life time!! May God have mercy on you effing asses!! WHERE IS YOUR END TIME DESTINATION?
Mecutiepie2
Posted: at 26-07-2009 10:38 PM (15 years ago) | Newbie
Mecutiepie2 at 27-07-2009 01:35 AM (15 years ago) (f)
You effing black bastards need to go to school to learn how to construct a sentence! You are a bunch of scamming effing mother f------!! get a damn job and earn an honest living like we have to, the people you steal from!!...hahahah lollollol! You think it is effing funny, I would like to cut your penis and balls off and shove them down your throat and cut your throat and watch you bleed out you bastard!!
Posted: at 27-07-2009 01:35 AM (15 years ago) | Newbie
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