A Federal High Court in Abuja has
issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the President of the Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick and four other officials of the organisation
accused of misappropriating funds belonging to the football body.
The Nation reports that Justice
Ijeoma Ojukwu gave the order on Monday after the case involving the NFF
officials was called and they were absent in court.
Also, the be affected by the
arrest order are NFF Secretary, Sunusi Mohammed; the 1st Vice-President, Seyi
Akinwumi; the 2nd Vice-President, Shehu Dikko and an Executive member, Yusuff
Fresh.
The Federal Government had
earlier this year filed a 17-count charge, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/93/2019, before
the court, in which its accused the NFF officials of alleged misappropriation
of $8,400,000 belonging to the football body.
The money was said to have been
paid by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to the NFF
as appearance fees in the group state of the Russia 2018 World Cup.
The defendants are also accused
of “moving dishonestly and intentionally the sum of about N4bn” belonging to
the NFF without the consent of the NFF.
Justice Ojukwu gave the order for
the arrest of the defendants upon an oral application by the prosecution
lawyer, Celcius Ukpong when the case was called and the defendants were absent.
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