Paul Obi in Abuja
Justice P. I. Ajaku of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin-City, Edo State on Thursday
ordered that the duo of Uluocha Obi Brown, an Administrative Secretary
of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Delta State
and Percy Okojie, a legal practitioner, be remanded in prison custody,
following their arraignment before the court by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on an eight-count amended charge,
bordering on conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of
N111,500,000.
According
to the EFCC Head of Media and Information, Wilson Uwujaren, “The
defendants were arraigned for allegedly collecting the sum of
N111,500,000.00k (One Hundred and Eleven Million, Five Hundred Thousand
Naira only), as a bribe during the weeks leading to the 2015
presidential election.
“They
are among the over 100 INEC officials that allegedly collected part of
the $115 million (N23bn) disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, during the countdown to the 2015
presidential election.
“Brown
was arrested sometime in 2016, following an intelligence received by
the EFCC on the activities of some INEC Staff, who allegedly connived
with the West African Network of Election Observers (WANEO) a
non-governmental organisation (NGO), in defrauding the federal
government huge sums of money, running into billions of naira during the
2015 general election.”
Details later…
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