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Arms scam: Obanikoro’s wife loses Abuja mansion to FG, appeals


A Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Jabi, Abuja, has requested that Alhaja Moroophat Obanikoro, the spouse of a previous Minister of State for Defense, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, ought to relinquish her property pending the result of examinations concerning her better half and kids. 

The court likewise dismisses a supplication asking the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to pay her the aggregate of N200m for abusing her key human rights. 

Obanikoro's significant other has, be that as it may, set out toward the Appeal Court to challenge the court judgment. 

As a major aspect of examinations concerning the $2.1bn arms trick, including the Office of the National Security Adviser, the EFCC had followed the exchange of about N4.7bn to the Diamond Bank record of Sylvan McNamara, an organization professedly claimed by Obanikoro's two children – Gbolahan and Babajide. 

Out of the N4.7bn, Obanikoro supposedly offered N3.880bn to Ayodele Fayose and Senator Iyiola Omisore in July 2014, when they were the Peoples Democratic Party governorship applicants in Ekiti and Osun states separately. 

Some portion of the cash professedly given to Fayose was said to have been changed over to $5.377m and gave to him at Spotless Hotel, Ado-Ekiti, within the sight of the then Ekiti State PDP Secretary, Tope Aluko, and other gathering stalwarts. 

Obanikoro purportedly hushed up about over N600m. 

The EFCC hence grabbed a house in the Ikoyi zone of Lagos State professedly having a place with Obanikoro's children – Gbolahan and Babajide – and a property situated at 44 Mamman Kotangora Crescent, Katampke Extension, Abuja, having a place with their mom. 

Notwithstanding, Obanikoro's significant other contended that she purchased the property more than seven years before the asserted arms trick occurred. 



She said the EFCC had no privilege to rebuff her for any wrongdoing purportedly dedicated by her significant other and asked the court to honor her N200m. 

Obanikoro's significant other requested "a request putting aside the fixing of the property; a request coordinating the EFCC to delicate an open expression of remorse for the unlawful and unlimited intrusion of the previously mentioned property and the whole of N200,000,000 as general harms for the unlawful and illegal attack of the property." 

In an affirmation, dismissed to by one Jackson Edet, the EFCC guaranteed that Obanikoro's significant other couldn't claim to be unmindful of her better half's asserted wrongdoing. 

The commission said Moroophat's significant other and her children gathered over N600m from the ONSA for a non-existent contract. 

The EFCC contended that examination had demonstrated that, "the property has a place with Musiliu Obanikoro and he paid for the statutory charges for the property." 

The commission included, "That a legal advisor, Tejumola Adeboye, who volunteered an announcement to the commission, expressed that he dealt with the said property and dispatches the lease to MON Integrated Services (an organization purportedly claimed by Obanikoro, which is additionally under test)." 

In his administering, the Justice Y. Halilu said he couldn't prevent the EFCC from doing its work, including that all Nigerians must join in the battle against debasement. 

He included, "I should decline the application since it is most unmeritorious and exceptionally bundled to misdirect this court. God preclude."
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