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You’ve case to answer, ICPC tells lawyer over alleged N1.1bn fraud

Stephen Jombo by Stephen Jombo
July 5, 2022
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Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has told a lawyer, Umar Hussaini, a private solicitor and friend to the late Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr. Inde Dikko Abdullahi, that he has a case to answer in an alleged N1.1 billion fraud case.

Barr Hussaini has been charged by the ICPC and is standing trial before Honourable Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja over his alleged complicity in inducing the Managing Director of Cambial Limited, Mr. Yemi Obadeyi, who was the complainant, to pay the sum N1.1 billion into the account of Capital Law Office on 6th March 2010, as refundable “completion security deposit” for the procurement of 120 units of houses as residential accommodation for officers of NCS.

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The defendant had filed a “No Case Submission” before the court arguing that the said sum paid into the account of Capital Law Office was induced by the deceased former Comptroller General and a former Deputy Comptroller General, Garba Bala Makarfi who instructed Mr. Obadeyi to pay the money into his account.

The accused person also argued that he was neither a party to the contract for the sale of 120 unit of houses for officers of NCS nor was he present when the late former Customs boss was discussing the payment of the money into his account with the Managing Director of Cambial Limited.

He therefore told the court that he could not be held culpable for inducing the payment of the money into the account of his private law firm as charged because the prosecution knew who the real culprits were but refused to prosecute them.

Responding, counsel to ICPC, Ephraim Otti, urged the court to dismiss the prayers of the defendant and order him to explain why he pretended to be an external solicitor to the NCS when he knew that he was not, The Trumpet gathered.

He pointed at the evidence of prosecution witnesses which proved that the defendant was present when he was being introduced as an external solicitor to the NCS and he did not deny it and even went ahead to provide account details of his private law firm to the complainant. The prosecution counsel submitted that it was this false pretence that induced the complainants to deposit the funds into the account of the defendant’s private law firm.

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This is because the complainant believed that the defendant was acting on behalf of the NCS, he stated. ICPC counsel further urged the court to consider the exhibits that proved that the defendant was only a private friend and solicitor to the late former Customs boss, in which he admitted in his voluntary statement that he had returned a portion of the money to the complainant and had used some other portions of the money to register some companies and acquire properties which the defendant managed in his own name on behalf of the deceased.

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