ILLEGAL ACQUISITION: COURT ORDERS FINAL FORFEITURE OF TWO HOUSES LINKED TO NIGERIAN FORMER MINISTER, ALISON-MADUEKE

Penpushing also report that at the Wednesday’s sitting, the motion was taken and the lawyer to the respondent filed a response, stating that the properties had earlier been transferred to the federal government. Counsel to the respondent did not oppose the application for the final forfeiture of the properties by the applicant counsel.

The EFCC had, on December 5, 2017, filed an ex parte application seeking a temporary forfeiture of the properties, which were suspected to be proceeds of an unlawful activity. In the same vein, the application was supported by a 34-page affidavit deposed to by Abdulrasheed Bawa, an investigator with the EFCC.

Justice Olatoregun in her ruling on the application had ordered the interim forfeiture of the property and directed the commission to publish the forfeiture order in a national newspaper for the respondents or any interested person(s) to show cause why the properties should not be permanently forfeited to the federal government.

Meanwhile, Justice Mojisola Olatoregun, consequently in her ruling, granted the applicant’s prayers accordingly