The federal government is seeking
a temporary forfeiture of alleged undeclared assets traced to Ike Ekweremadu,
deputy senate president.
The ex-parte motion marked
FHC/ABJ/CS/284/2018 was filed at an Abuja high court.
The government requested an
interim court order “temporarily attaching/forfeiting the properties listed in
schedule B here under, to the federal government of Nigeria, pending the
conclusion of further inquiry/investigation by the special presidential
investigation panel for the recovery of public property and/or possible
arraignment of the respondent”.
The motion was filed on behalf of
the government by Festus Keyamo, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
Thirteen properties were
reportedly traced to Ekweremadu; nine are in Nigeria, two in the UK, eight in
Dubai and three are in the US.
Following the purported
discovery, we reported that Abubakar Malami, attorney general of the federation
(AGF), had filed a false declaration of assets charge against Ekweremadu before
the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
Ekweremadu is said to have failed
to disclose the foreign assets in his declarations to the Code of Conduct
Bureau (CCB).
EKWEREMADU: NO ASSETS TO FORFEIT
Reacting to the motion exparte,
the deputy senate president said he has no asset to be forfeited to the
government as he has declared all his assets with the CCB as required by law.
Uche Anichukwu, his special
adviser on media, made this known in a statement.
He said: “The attention of the
office of the deputy president of the senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has been drawn to
a motion exparte filed by Festus Keyamo Chambers on behalf of the special
presidential investigation panel for the recovery of public property.
“The motion is for an order to
temporarily forfeit assets it claimed the senator did not declare with the Code
of Conduct Bureau (CCB).
“The so-called panel sought and
obtained his assets declaration forms, but could not look at them since it is
clearly out on a vendetta and smear campaign.
“Again, Sen. Ekweremadu wishes to
assure all his supporters and well-wishers that there is nothing to worry
about.”
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