Justice Ishaq Bello of the Federal Capital
Territory High Court has granted leave to the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission (ICPC) to arraign for trial
Aminu Abubakar, Chairman, Goodluck Support
Group and Okechukwu Geoffrey for extortion and
blackmail.
The accused persons who were earlier granted bail
in the sum of N15million and two sureties in like
sum, were alleged to have been in possession of
some documents relating to some officials of the
Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, with the
intent to implicate them by publishing and
threatening them, if they do not part with the
sum of N50million.
At the last adjourned hearing on an application
filed by the counsel to the accused persons,
contesting the jurisdiction of the court to entertain
the suit, the trial judge in his ruling averred that
through out the submission of the defense counsel,
there was no basis for the charges to be quashed
as the prosecution diligently linked them to the
offenses committed.
ICPC prosecuting counsel George Lawal in his
submission argued that, for the application
seeking to quash charges to be considered, the
suspects must have been linked with the alleged
offences.
“The charge clearly shows where the first accussed
had a meeting with the officials of the petroleum
ministry, where he demanded for the sum of
N50million and even went ahead with threats,
and even went into a meeting where he collected
the sum of N5million, even writing an
undertaking”, therefore, the issue of quashing the
charge was not acceptable.
Having listened to the various submissions, Justice
Bello adjourned the matter to October 21, 2015 for
trial.
The accused persons are to appear before the court
on a 3 count charge under the penal code, for
extortion and conspiracy to extort on the next
adjourned date.


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I still dey observe

Blackmail is like playing with a pit bull

Oya sharp sharp, we dey wait!

Ehn ICPC When icpc start de arraign people??

All this adjourned case bores me. I want to hear something like sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. No time to waste time abeg

weyreypey:
Blackmail is like playing with a pit bull

hmm why do you say so?

the documents must have contain lot of their dirty secret