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The 20 suspects are among the over 140 individuals and organizations
involved in the ongoing investigations into the subsidy payments by the
EFCC. More suspects will be arraigned periodically as the investigation
progresses.
A statement from the EFCC said the
suspects, comprising seven oil companies and 12 individuals, will be
docked in Lagos courts. The companies involved, according to the
statement, are Nasaman Oil Services; Eternal Oil and Gas Plc; Ontario
Oil & Gas Plc; Nadabo Energy Limited; Pacific Silver Line Limited,
Axenergy Limited and Fago Petroleum and Gas Limited.
It said the 11 individuals involved in
the scam are: Mamman Nasir Ali; Christian Taylor; Mahmud Tukur;
Ochonogor Alex; Walter Wagbatsoma; Adaoha Ugo-Ngadi; Fakuade Babafemi
Ebenezer; Ezekiel Olaleye Ejidele; Abubakar Ali Peters; Jude Agube
Abalaka, Abdulahi Alao and Oluwaseun Ogunbanbo.
Ezekiel Olaleye Ejidele is director of
the accounting firm, Akintola Williams Deliote while Fakuade Babafemi
Ebenezer is a staff of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulating
Agency (PPPRA) and Ochonogor Alex is a senior lawyer.
The statement also said Nasaman Oil
Services; Mamman Nasir and Christian Taylor are to face charges
bordering on obtaining N4.4 billion from the Federal Government under
false pretence, saying the money is alleged to have been fraudulently
obtained as subsidy payments from the Petroleum Support Fund for the
purported importation of 30.5million litres of Premium Motor Spirit from
SEATAC Petroleum Limited of British Virgin Islands.
In the same vein, the anti-graft agency
will equally prosecute Abdulahi Alao and Axenergy Limited for allegedly
obtaining N2.6 billion being payments received from the Petroleum
Support Fund for the purported importation of 33.3 million litres of
Premium Motor Spirit, according to the statement.
It said Mahmud Tukur, Ochonogor Alex;
Abdulahi Alao and Eternal Oil And Gas Plc will be docked for
“fraudulently obtaining N1.8 billion” from the Petroleum support Fund
for a purported importation of 80.3million litres of Premium Motor
Spirit.
Nadabo Energy Limited, Abubakar Ali
Peters, Jude Agube Abalaka and Pacific Silver Line Limited are to be
prosecuted for allegedly obtaining N1.4 billion being payments
“fraudulently received from the Petroleum Support Fund for a purported
importation of 19.4million litres of Premium Motor Spirit”, it also
said.
Walter Wagbatsoma; Adaoha Ugo -Ngadi;
Fakuade Babafemi Ebenezer; Ezekiel Olaleye Ejidele and Ontario Oil &
Gas Nigeria Limited will be arraigned for “fraudulently obtaining N1.9
billion” from the Petroleum Support Fund for a purported importation of
39.2 litres of Premium Motor Spirit, according to the statement.
“Fago Petroleum and Gas Limited and
Oluwaseun Ogunbanbo are to be docked for fraudulently obtaining the sum
of N979,653,110.20 ( Nine Hundred and Seventy Nine Million, Six Hundred
and Fifty Three Thousand, One Hundred and Ten Thousand Naira, Twenty
Eight Kobo), from the Petroleum Support Fund for a purported importation
of 33, 627, 84 litres of Premium Motor Spirit”, it said.
1 comment:
its high time abeg. they should answer for their sins
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