Presumed fraud n1.9 billion: the court is May 15 for the process of the Ministry of Works, Surveyor – Thage

Judge Jude Owuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, APO, Abuja on Thursday 3 April 2025 was set on May 15, 2025 for the process of the former deputy director, Highway, federal ministry of the works and planning of the authors of Augustine.

The duo was pursued by the Commission for economic and financial crimes, EFCC on charges of three counts, on the border with the diversion and embezzlement of public funds for an amount of N1.936,961,649.00 billion.

The fund was allocated to the acquisition of titles on the federal roads at national level between March 4, 2019 and 17 July 2020, which the defendants presumably converted to their personal use.

In Thursday’s procedure, the consultant of the first and second defendant, Jk Kolawole and Asu Garba, reminded the Court of Overwhelming question of his customers respectively and asked that the Court admitted them to save at liberal conditions pending the determination of the case. In His Object, prosecution counsel, Mk Hussein Drew the attention of the Court to a couunter-offavit Signed by Njoku Ekelechi, an investigation with the EFCC, Accompanied with a Written Address, dated April 2, 2025 and urged the Court to Discontenance The Bail Application The Bail Application Now he imposed Bail Terms and Conditions that Will Ensure That The Defensets Sagoar in Court for Their Trial.

The judge onwuegbuzie admitted that the accused of deposit in the sum of N800, 000.000 (nineteenth century Millions of Naira) with two surety in sum similar, which must be public employees who are resident of Abuja. The surety must write an commitment to produce the defendants in court how and when they have. In addition, the defendants must present their passports to the court that will be verified by the accusation.

The first defendant, Olowonyan, who is awaiting another trial in the same court for an alleged N420 million fraud was also admitted to another deposit by the court in the sum of N400,000,000 (four hundred million) with a surety in a similar sum, which must be a public employee, residing in Abuja. The surety, the Court hELD must write a company to produce the accused in court as and when it is due. In addition, the defendant must present his passport to the Court Chancellor.

Both issues were updated until May 15, 2025 for the process.

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