The court launches a case of fraud against Zinox, others – Blueprint Newspapers Limited

For the umpteenth time, the Court launched a case of fraud presented against the president of Zinox Technologies, Leo Stan Ekeh, his wife, ekeh hair and 11 others.

The last is the dismissal of the case by the judge Akpan Okon Ebong of the high court of the FCT which eliminated the case presented by Mr. Femi Falana San, claiming to act on a Fiat donated to him by the Prosecutor General and the Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mr. Lateef Fagbemi San, against the president of the Zinox technologies, Mr. Stan Ekeh and 12.

The other defendants are Chris Eze Ozims, Oyebode Folashade, Charles Adigwe, Obilo Onuoha, Agartha Ukoha, Anya O. Anya, Femi Dosumu, Nnenna Kalu, Admas Digital Technologies Limited, Technology Distribution Limited and Zinox Technologies Limited.

In the cause n. FCT/HC/CR/985/24 filed in November 2024, Falana on behalf of her client, Benjamin Joseph, Ceo of Citadel Oracle Concept Limited, a computer company based in Ibadan, presented accusations against Ekeh, 9 people and 3 companies in front of the High Federal Court of Abuja for the supposed company. At the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) headquarters that Technology Distribution Ltd (now TD Africa), the largest distributor of technological equipment of the sub Saharan Africa supplied on behalf of Citadel in 2012.

However, in the real certified copy of the sentence dated 20 March 2025, the judge Ebong said as follows: “It is my conclusion based on the foregoing that this accusation (n. FCT/HC/CR/985/2024, the Federal Republic of Nigeria against Leo Stan Ekeh and 12 ORS) constitute a coarse abuse of a trial process and are able to reject. According to the Republic. Nigeria.
Before reaching his judgment that put a final nail on the coffin of a case that other courts had rejected in the past as dead on arrival, the judge Ebong had considered the result of previous cases and petitions presented by Mr. Joseph, none of which was in his favor.

The judge Ebong said: “An intriguing aspect of this question is that none of the law enforcement officers involved in the investigation into the nominal complaint (Mr. Joseph) numerous petitions found merit in any of his accusations against the defendants. When he was called Senchi J. (Justice Danlami Z. Senches) to demonstrate his statements, he was unable to support a campaign.”

Previous judgments on the issue had established that rather than being guilty, Ekeh and 12 other were actually the victims of a failed diversion of diversion diversion traced by Joseph and Citadel.

When he was contacted, one of the defendants, Chris Eze Ozims, a lawyer, said: “This sentence truly reflects our coherent position on the accusations and it is positive that we have once again been claimed by a competent high court.

He said that the judgment of Ebong justice was consistent with the position of the defendants and in tandem with the sentence of other judges who had previously judged on the same question in the past.
The chief councilor of the defendants, Matthew Burkaa San, described the sentence as a victory for the integrity and the rule of law.

The court documents have shown that the cause of Falana was based on the same statements that in the past various courts had fired as falsehood and fundamental. The case was born from a contract between Cittadella and limited technological distributions for the supply of computer to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), a project completely financed by technological distributions and has no question with Zinox and its promoter, Leo Stan Ekeh.

It will be remembered that Mr. Joseph had lost the case and his additional causes in several courts in the past. In his petition to the police in 2013, he was discovered by the police authorities that Joseph provided false information to the police, pushing the police inspector to accuse him of false information in office no. CR/216/16.

In another case presented by the EFCC in his request against his partner, Princess Kama, in office no. FCT/HC/CR/244/2018, the honorable judge Danlami Z. Sentchi of the high court of the FCT (as then it was), rejected all the accusations made by Benjamin Joseph as false and imposed the sum of n20 million as damages against him for false petitions in relation to the same accusations.

Previous documents of the Court have shown that Joseph had in his statement on an oath in question n.

In his deposition pursuant to the oath, Joseph said that Citadel “has not carried out any contract for the FIRS at any time and that he did not make the 2nd defendant (Princess O. Kama) who is his agent in relation to the contract for which he delivered the first/release of all documents like the applicant (Citadel) who indicate that the contract offered or other contract.

However, a letter from the FIRS addressed to the Chamber of Afe Babalola & Co dated 11 February 2014 (FIRS/PD/GDS/2559) and signed by an Idresa Kogo, head of the legal department, has otherwise declared our record record.

“Your client instructed to FIRS through a letter of 13 December 2012 to deal with the princess O. Kama (customer agent) in relation to the contract. Through three separate letters dated 20 December 2012, your customer commissioned to pay the customer’s account with Access Bank Plc. Please note that Firs acted in accordance with the instructions of your customer and the due diligence”, the letter was declared.

The FIRS letter was a response to the investigation of the Afe Babalola Chamber, Citadel Oracle Concept Ltd lawyers and his MD, Mr. Benjamin Joseph, at that time.

The current accusations presented by Falana on the basis of a Fiat by the Prosecutor General are the third in a row as Joseph had previously presented the office n. CR/469/2022, which had been eliminated by the honorable justice with the high court of the FCT, by an order dated 8 November 2022.

Determined to push through his case, Joseph presented the same accusations before the honorable justice of the High Court of the FCT, and the accusations were, once again, affected by the honorable Court on March 19, 2024, with honorable justice adopoju claiming that the question was made so that the matter was made to escape, extinguished and limited himself to the fight in the history of the dust … The abuse is an abuse of the instant and has been united in this case and which is a problem for the processes developed in this case. consequentially. “