The Nigerian Presidency has said it has written the National Crime Commission of the United Kingdom, UK, to assist in the investigation of five senators with properties in the UK and the British Virgin Islands.

The Senators are Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and Imo state governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hope Uzodinma.

Others are Senators Stella Odua, Peter Nwaoboshi and Albert Bassey Akpan.

Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigative Panel on the Recovery of Public Property SPIP, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, disclosed this yesterday at a news conference in Abuja to highlight some of the activities of the body in 2018.

He said: “The UK has passed a law that will also help us in Nigeria fight corruption and that is the ‘Unexplained Wealth Regulation’ which entails that if you have a property in the UK that is above $50, 000, you have to explain your source of wealth, and property here does not just mean a building but even jewelries.

“So, we have written the National Crime Authority in the UK asking them to investigate some Nigerian senators who have property in the UK and the Virgin Islands,” he said.

Obono-Obla added that if they are found culpable, they would be prosecuted in accordance with extant laws and made to forfeit such properties.

Obono-Obla, who is also the Special Assistant to the President on Public Prosecution, added that five oil companies are also under investigation for tax evasion and refusal to pay royalties to the Nigerian government.

He said: “the companies have not remitted over $1 billion to the government.

“A lot of oil companies are contributing to the economic challenges facing the country, denying Nigeria of royalties and also evading taxes, money that would have been channeled to the development of the country.

“Working with the Federal Inland Revenue Service FIRS, we discovered that Addax Petroleum has failed to pay tax for five years and so they are owing about N700 million. Then, thanks to a petition we received from Femi Falana SAN, Mobil which purchased an oil bloc in 2001 for $2.5 billion dollars is yet to pay about $1.9 billion of that money to the government. We have commenced our investigations too”, he stated.

He said the panel was also looking at a petition involving a top official of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC as well as against the management of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN under Govs. Chukwuma Soludo and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi with regards to debt cancellations to banks.

Here is the list of 60 houses reportedly traced to Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President


Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the Deputy Senate President is being quizzed by the anti-graft agency on his acquisition of the assets - when and how they were paid for, by who, and whether he declared them before the Code of Conduct Bureau as stipulated for all public officers in the country.

Sources at the anti-corruption agency told The Nation, a local newspaper, that the politician acquired numerous assets in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States and United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Here are the locations of the assets traced to the Nigerian official:

Properties in Nigeria

- Located at No. 11, Evans Enwerem Street, Apo Legislative Quarters, Apo, Abuja.

- Plot 2633 Kyami, Abuja; Housing Estate (Plot 1106 CRD, Cadastral Zone 07-07, Lugbe, Abuja.

- Plot 2782 Asokoro Extension, Abuja, and Houses at Citi Park Estate, Gwagwalada, Abuja.

- Plot 1474 Cadastral Zone BD6, Mabushi, Abuja; Congress Court, Abuja

- Flat 1, Block D25, Athletics Street (24th Street) Games Village, Abuja

- Plot 66, 64 Crescent, Gwarinpa Estate, Abuja.

Properties in the United States

Traceable assets include

- 4507 Stella Street, Bella Vida Estate Kissimmee, Florida, USA.

- 2747 Club Cortile Circle, Kissimmee, Florida, USA.

- 2763 Club Cortile Circle, Kissimmee, Florida, USA.

Properties in London

- Flat 4 Varsity Court, Harmer Street, WIH 4NW, London

- 52 Aylestone Avenue, NW6 7AB, London.

Properties in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Dubai are Room 1903, The Address Hotel, Downtown Dubai.

- The Address Boulevard, 3901, Dubai; 2 Flats of Burjside Boulevard (the signature), Dubai.

- Emirate Gardens Apartment No. EGG1/1/114 and EGG1/115, Dubai.

- Apartment No. DFB/12/B 1204, Park Towers, Dubai.

- Flat 3604, MAG214, Dubai.

- Villa No 148, Maeen 1, The Lakes Emirates Hills, Dubai.

Nigerian officials are known to have wealth and riches that do not commensurate with their earnings. The assets were suspected to have been acquired through illicit funds.


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netpro:
This is how we roll. Nothing for opposition.. Stupid baba all the way![/b]

IbrahimDamola:
Where is maina's name? Babachir nko?

How about Gandollarje?

Abi na only southerners dey corrupt while abookis that have destroyed this country since 1960s continue to enjoy freedoom?

IbrahimDamola:
Where is maina's name? Babachir nko?

How about Gandollarje?

Abi na only southerners dey corrupt while abookis that have destroyed this country since 1960s continue to enjoy freedoom?

IbrahimDamola:
Where is maina's name? Babachir nko?

How about Gandollarje?

Abi na only southerners dey corrupt while abookis that have destroyed this country since 1960s continue to enjoy freedoom?

Galaxyowerri:

Not just Southerners but only Easterners as there were 4 Igbo senators and 1 Ibiobio yet gandollar and the rest are being shielded by these corrupt bastards claiming to be fighting corruption!!
They forgot that this is UK, a country that won't be selective like them but will rather probe anyone found culpable.
They even gave the same Hope Uzodinma the APC gubernatorial ticket for Imo state!!
Buhari/Jubril will not escape ICC in due time.
Worst government in Africa!!

IbrahimDamola:
Where is maina's name? Babachir nko?

How about Gandollarje?

Abi na only southerners dey corrupt while abookis that have destroyed this country since 1960s continue to enjoy freedoom?

Galaxyowerri:

Not just Southerners but only Easterners as there were 4 Igbo senators and 1 Ibiobio yet gandollar and the rest are being shielded by these corrupt bastards claiming to be fighting corruption!!
They forgot that this is UK, a country that won't be selective like them but will rather probe anyone found culpable.
They even gave the same Hope Uzodinma the APC gubernatorial ticket for Imo state!!
Buhari/Jubril will not escape ICC in due time.
Worst government in Africa!!