By Ameh Ejekwonyilo and Kunle Sanni

Court document reveals ‘army general’ behind N10.9billion assets seized by EFCC
The court document obtained by PREMIUM TIMES removes the confusing attribution of the N10.9 billion worth of assets to an unnamed “top military officer”.

A court document has directly linked the recently seized N10.9 billion worth of assets to the suspected “unlawful activities” of a deceased army general, Aminu Kano Maude.

‘The court document obtained by PREMIUM TIMES removes the confusing attribution of the assets to an unnamed “top military officer” in the two statements the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has since issued on the forfeiture of the properties.

In what has been criticised as the EFCC’s undue concealment of the identity of the actual person behind the acquisition of the assets the commission had said in a statement on Monday that they were seized from “a top military officer”.

Without providing the name of the top military officer, the statement added that the assets were being “controlled through proxies including the late General Aminu Maude, and companies such as Atlasfield Integrated Services Nigeria Limited, Marhaba Events Place, Aflac Plastics and Atlasfield Gas Plant Limited.”

The anti-graft agency’s follow-up statement on the following day – February 15 – completely excluded Mr Maude’s name while maintaining that the assets were being “held by fronts and proxies to a top military officer”.

The second statement which provided a list of 24 assets covered by the final forfeiture order obtained by the commission from the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, also raised the worth of the assets up from the about N3 billion indicated in the previous statement to N10.9 billion.

But both statements signed by the commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, diverted attention away from Mr Maude as the central figure in the alleged fraudulent acquisition of the assets.

A copy of the earlier order issued by the Federal High Court judge, Nkeoye Maha, on May 13, 2020, for an interim forfeiture of the assets, however, explicitly linked the assets to Mr Maude’s suspected unlawful activity.

The court order with the same title as provided by the EFCC in its application for the interim forfeiture order, says, ‘In the matter of the ex-parte application by the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for interim forfeiture of order in respect of some assets situate in different parts of Nigeria suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activity traced to on General Maude Aminu Kano (rtd) (a public officer) and his proxies both bodies and individuals”.

The judge, in the court order went on to direct the EFCC to advertise the interim forfeiture order in This Day, Punch, Nation, Guardian Daily Trust or Leadership newspapers.

She order invited any person with justifiable grounds to oppose the issuance of an order for the final forfeiture of the assets to the federal government to appear in court to show cause.

Ms Maha also ordered the EFCC to file a certificate of compliance concerning the advertisement of the interim order not later than seven days.

On February 14, EFCC announced in a statement that the court had issued an order of final forfeiture of the 24 assets valued at N10.9 billion.

The list of the forfeited properties contained landed properties located in different parts of Kano, Katsina, Calabar (Cross River State) and Kaduna.

Among them are nine filling stations scattered in Kano with a total of 300 pumps.

They also included filling stations, Event Centres, Plazas, Block Industries, Truck Assembly Plant, Polythene Production factory and table water factory.

Mr Maude, who hailed from Kano, served in the army finance corps and died in November 2019.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/512474-court-document-reveals-army-general-behind-n10-9billion-assets-seized-by-efcc.html

As usual People's Gazzette lied. Clueless people

As far as na Aboki thief, nothing go happen.

Hmmmm

It's a great site to reach Ghanaian audience.

NurseJay64: I found out that it's the only site where you see so many Ghanaians online

Unical should do fast mak i join Dssc Military nd Embezzle my own share

Stealing is not corruption..........

The greed and desperation of man is deep.10.9bill!

The grred and desperation of man is deep.10.9bill!

Story

The greed and desperation of man is deep.10.9bill!

Just one man stole this much ... our leaders have no conscience.

I guess he is dead ... was the money taken to wherever he is now.

PDP is behind this confusion they want people to believed that the money recovered from them has been stolen

Eweeeeeey!

Only you one, all these properties..
End Boko Haram, for where?? You were busy arranging properties, I guess that's what has been distracting you from carrying out your duty

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Noted

After acquiring the propeties with stolen money, the person still died. So what is/was his gain?

The North are the most corrupt people.... Yet they claim they have the country at heart....


You steal everything to yourself and destroys everything you see... yet you claim Nigeria is united because of you...


A typical aboki will destroy infrastructures... You will see them remove those metallic drainage filters and have the roads exposed to erosion .. You dare not speak to them as they will stab you and the aboki police will detain you with your injured body....


Their politicians are stealing everything from the government...

Lexusgs430:
Stealing is not corruption..........

That's their life motto, Gej the clueless said it

Lewisjohnson:
Unical should do fast mak i join Dssc Military nd Embezzle my own share

If Ur name name is not abubaka , danladi and likes of house/fulani, bro u will only end up facing boko haram in sambisa forest. There Ur coming back to meet Ur love one alive is not sure...or they will just shoot and kill u outright and blame it on mistaken discharge

As he has died, he is now the poster boy. The accomplices are not even mentioned.


Shame on EFCC for not mentioning names. But they can break into houses, take laptops as evidence and parade innocent people on camera as Yahoo boys.


The military that should be disciplined, and its members should ideally think thrice before embezzling money is used as a cash cow by those at the top. Pathetic.

Corruption and political stealing is heading to Zillion cos we have moved out from millions now billions soon trillions then zillion. God help us in this country cos no one is free of corruption

I stopped reading Nigerian news when I realized no corrupt leader ever faces judgement for their crimes.

Mynd44:
As usual People's Gazzette lied. Clueless people

How did they lie?
What did they lie about?

Don't know how this one became MOD...

The way we steal in Nigeria is alarming despite the values we all claim we have. Interestingly, the said General is late. Was he buried with money to spend on the other side of life? If only we learn not to run after vanity, we will live more happily.

Realists:


That's their life motto, Gej the clueless said it

Stealing is not corruption but a criminal act.


Stealing is a crime..

Being corrupt is a crime.

Criminal acts are punishable by law.

You can be corrupt but don't steal.

Buhari is corrupt, will u say he us a thief?

yanabasee:
The North are the most corrupt people.... Yet they claim they have the country at heart....


You steal everything to yourself and destroys everything you see... yet you claim Nigeria is united because of you...


A typical aboki will destroy infrastructures... You will see them remove those metallic drainage filters and have the roads exposed to erosion .. You dare not speak to them as they will stab you and the aboki police will detain you with your injured body....


Their politicians are stealing everything from the government...

Yet still believe they are the best fit to lead the country.
Honestly speaking, 95% of damage dealt to this country was inflicted by the north.

Stealing everywhere.

sighs