N68bn Fraud: EFCC Seizes 46 Houses From Goodluck Jonathan’s Campaign Director, Ngozi Olejeme

N68bn Fraud: EFCC Seizes 46 Houses From Goodluck Jonathan’s Campaign Director, Ngozi Olejeme

A Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu
on Friday, December 21, 2018, ordered the interim forfeiture of assets
and properties traced to one Ngozi Olejeme, a former chairman of Nigeria
Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF and also the Deputy Chairman,
Finance Committee of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation in the
2015 election.

A statement from the EFCC says Justice Ojukwu granted the application
and ruled that “an order is hereby made attaching/forfeiting in the
interim, all assets and properties set out in the schedule attached to
this application, to the Federal Government of Nigeria, pending the
hearing and determination of the trial in Charge No. CR/365/17 pending
at”.

The order was made, sequel to an Ex-parte Originating Summons, filed
by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, through its
counsel, Elizabeth Alabi, on December 12, 2018, praying the court for
the following orders:

“An order of interim attachment/forfeiture of the asset attachment of the properties set out in the schedule attached herein”.

“An order stopping any disposal, conveyance, mortgage, lease, sale or
alienation or otherwise of the properties/assets described in the
schedule attached herein”.

The schedule of properties referred to in the Summons include:
parcels of lands, duplexes, a bank building, and hotel buildings,
amongst others.

Some of them are: one storey semi-detached residential building,
located at house/flat 86, 11 Crescent, Kado estate, Abuja; a fenced plot
of land with C of O No. DTSR16326, located at plots 104 and 105, Block
IV, Phase V, Core Area, Asaba, Delta state; Six units of one bedroom
apartment; one unit of five bedroom bungalow; a block of six units of
office space, all located at 196, Melford Okilo road, Amarata-Epie,
Yenegoa, Bayelsa state.

Others include: one duplex and 4 house residential building with
swimming pool, gate house, fully furnished with state of the art
facilities, located at No. 25 Kainji Crescent, off Maitama, Abuja. This
same property is also known as plot No. 738 Cadastral zone AO5, Maitama,
Abuja; A storey building; two bungalows; printing press with printing
equipment; a fenced empty land measuring 1422.765 square meters, located
at km.9 Asaba-Benin Express road, Asaba, Delta state.

Another property is a twin duplex office building, located at Plot
R/151 (No. 30A) Kingsway Road, Old GRA, Enugu State, registered at Enugu
Land Registry.

The Commission, through the application, also sought for the interim
forfeiture of two Duplexes with Boys Quarters, Generator House, Gym and
Car Park, located at No. 3D Opolo, Old Commissioner’s Quarters, Yenegoa,
Bayelsa State; Ten plots of land, located at plot 7, 8, 11, 12, 16, 20,
23, and 24 Phase IV, Block 111, Core Area, Asaba, Delta state, with C
of O No. DSTR1194; A two bedroom bungalow, located at No. 3 Ogwa
Godspower avenue, Oshimili South LGA, Asaba, Delta State; A two bedroom
bungalow, located at No. 11 Chiweta Street, off Ezenie Avenue, Asaba,
Delta State, measuring 527.141 square meters; A two bedroom bungalow,
located at James Odittah Street, Oshimili LGA, Asaba, Delta State,
amongst many others.