People keep saying there are loop holes in the law, one question that keeps coming to my mind is ;how come it's easier to convict a small thief in Nigeria with that same law?, in sane countries, these are the kind of people that should use their two hands to cover their mouth, we sure have a long way to go

DozieInc:
Seems the FG doesn't have enough evidence for prosecution.

Wrong.

You cant keep such amount of money outside a bank even if the money is legitimately yours. That is still money laundering, an offence punishable by law.

Any amount to be transferred to anybody higher than $10,000 must be cleared by customs and CBN. Now all Andrew needs to do is to provide details.

omenkaLives:
Imagine wetin this one village people don do am! Odikwa very baaad!

Read again, he's right. The corruption fight should be a holistic one, why seize money alone? How will you justify the freedom given to Yakubu? That's why he has the gut to defend his broad day loot, even if he legally earned the money, stashing it up is a crime in its entirety, by now he ought to be in remand.

emmanuel1990:
supported.....if they have any evidence that the money was stolen, why not arrest and persecute him....why seize only the money, or is stealing no longer corruption?..

U have spoken well

sammhi:

The guy is right ! EFCC is doing a shoddy job.So what is the charge ? He said he owns the money and is left for EFCC to say the money is a proceed of crime . Failure to do so me as they have no case , technically speaking .
EFCC need to do their job professionally

They dont need a charge. It is illegal to keep such an amount at home, period!

I knew this matter had not ended

this is what you get when we have a lazy and incompetent efcc officials who go on convicting people only on media and pages of newspaper .yakubu is only making use of the opportunity created by efcc.

to convict such criminality the efcc ought to have gone through painstaking and thorough investigation to be able to nail the defendant, I will not be surprised if this case is prolonged and forgotten at the end of the day.

So it has gotten to the stage where thieves can ask for their stolen loot with boldness, I wish this was north Korea or China, this Andrew would have been executed in less than 48hours,forget due process, forget court proceedings.
Which people gave him such gifts running into thousands if not millions of dollars? This is the reason why these big thieves never get jailed, they will always find a loop hole somewhere to exploit.
And yet we say there is little corruption in nnpc, I wish jerry Rawlings was in power here.

Only in Nigeria..........

This Yakubu is a very shameless man.

OMO! See Liver!!! Chai! EFCC and our CJS Don suffer!!! Gift abi? From who? A Ghost friend you can't see!!! Or are those monies from the Spiritual world!!!!! This Man's punishment should be properly looked into and made severe!!! And Note: we still need to look for the Ghost that gave
him the money as a gift either by JAZZ(voodoo) or through our criminal justice system! STUPID MAN!!!

adanny01:


Wrong.

You cant keep such amount of money outside a bank even if the money is legitimately yours. That is still money laundering, an offence punishable by law.

Any amount to be transferred to anybody higher than $10,000 must be cleared by customs and CBN. Now all Andrew needs to do is to provide details.

Ok

bigtt76:
I said it before some useless lawyer would come and start yarning opata. Let Andrew name the people who gifted him the cash naaa if truly they were gifts. Nansense

this is why i love military!!

The man wants to be a man.

HungerBAD:
By Anthony Ogbonna

The former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu has filed an appeal at the Federal High Court, Kano demanding the refund of the $9.7m and £74,000 seized from him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and which the court that sat in Kano had ruled that it be forfeited to the Federal Government.

In the appeal filed by his counsel, Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN), Yakubu challenged the ruling of the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Zainab B. Abubakar, saying the court lacked the territorial jurisdiction to try the case since the crime was allegedly committed in Abuja, which is outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Kano court.

In a motion on notice with suit number FHC/ICN/CS/24/2017, Yakubu’s counsel, Raji argued that “by Section 45 of the Federal High Court Act, an offence shall be tried only by a court exercising jurisdiction in the area or place where the offence was committed. No aspect of the perceived offence in respect of which the Order of 13th February, 2017 was made, was committed within the Kano judicial division of this Honourable Court,” Raji said.

He said, “By Section 28 of the EFCC Act, only the commission, i.e. the EFCC has the vires to seek an Order for the interim forfeiture of property under the Act.

“The power of this Honourable Court to make interim forfeiture Order(s) pursuant to Sections 28 & 29 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act, 2004 (hereinafter “EFCC Act”) is applicable ONLY to alleged offences charged under the EFCC Act and not to offences cognizable under any other law.

The ex-parte Order of this Honourable Court dated 13th February, 2017, was made in respect of alleged offences under the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission Act (hereinafter “ICPC Act”) and not the EFCC Act as prescribed by Section 28 & 29 thereof.

“The conditions precedent to the grant of an interim forfeiture Order under Sections 28 & 29 of the EFCC Act were not complied with by the Applicant before the Order was made. “In the instant case, no charge was brought against the Respondent/Applicant before the provisions of Section 28 and 29 of the EFCC Act were activated to grant the ex-parte Order of 13th February, 2017.”

Recall that the Federal High Court which sat in Kano on the 13th February, 2017 and presided over by Justice Zainab B. Abubakar, had ordered the forfeiture of the sum of $9,772,000 (Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand United States Dollars) and £74,000 (Seventy Four Thousand Pound Sterling) recovered from Mr. Andrew Yakubu to the Federal Government.

In a press release signed by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC Head Media & Publicity, the order was sequel to an ex parte application by the EFCC seeking an interim forfeiture of the recovered money to the Federal Government. The ex parte application was moved by Salihu Sani, counsel for the applicant.

In her ruling, Justice Zainab had held “That the sum of $9,772,000 (Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand United States Dollars) and £74,000 (Seventy Four Thousand Pound Sterling) which are now in the custody of the applicant (EFCC) are in the interim forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

It would also be recalled that, on the 3rd day of February, 2017, operatives of the Commission had stormed a building belonging to the former NNPC boss and recovered the staggering sum of $9,772,000 (Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand United States Dollars) and £74,000 (Seventy Four Thousand Pound Sterling) stashed in a huge fire proof safe.

However, Mr. Yakubu has long said the money seized from him were gifts from persons he did not mention. Recall also that on February 8, 2017, Andrew Yakubu had reported to the Commission’s Zonal office in Kano and made statement wherein he admitted ownership of the recovered money, claiming it was gift from unnamed persons. Yakubu was GMD of the NNPC between 2012 and 2014.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/02/andrew-yakubu-asks-court-return-seized-looted-9-7m-74000/

omo dis man gather leaver ooooooooohhhhh

emmanuel1990:
supported.....if they have any evidence that the money was stolen, why not arrest and persecute him....why seize only the money, or is stealing no longer corruption?..

I thought he was actually Arrested and recently got out on Bail?

Nigerian thieves are the most shameless in the world

He should be in underground cell by now.. When big thieves ate allowed to fight the Govt I think the society is in a big mess.

When he was supporting el-rufai, nobody came for the money. Now that he is backing Kwankwasiyya for President and also indicating interest in contesting for Gov in 2019, efcc uses his driver as whistle blower to confiscate the money.

He was only arrested after he went to their office to demand the return of his cash.

The guy is a criminal, but there is more to his arrest sha.

I have tried to refrain to comment on this rogue attitude and foolishness, if not for law of the country, he is not supposed to be alive by now, that why I love the Chinese.. Okugbe

fight against these predators milking our collective common wealth is an all inclusive fight from all and sundry.
the effrontery will stop when the senate pass a bill sitting in front of them seeking special court to try the accused persons of corruption charges.

severe penalty and punishment on those convicted will deter people like this scums who will come out to deny a daylight robbery like this.

whistle blowing from common citizens like you and I will go a long way.

the bulk of the work lies with the Nigerian senate to do the needful and take things seriously as the president.

the questions is, will the caucus of corrupt lawmakers in both chambers of the house do the needful and pass this bills?

freeze001:
The problem with some Nigerians is that they're easily excited by stories of funds or loot recovery, they fail to realise that d government riding roughshod over everything will always get tripped up by the law! There must be due process! Allow the system to work and stop titillating zombies with dead news on d press all the time!

Which system are u referring to, d corrupt system? This is Naija where anything can happen. If the system is faulty cos of these cheats then let them be burnt by the faulty system.

Ishilove:
Kweeeke!

What drives these people to embark on this kind of primitive accumulation of wealth?
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Human nature

They steal for themselves and their progeny, down to the 10th generation.
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Not their fault you don't care about your 10th generation
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It is only in Nigeria that ex and serving government officials will have such hideous wealth stashed in different nooks, and when confronted, they will boldly give silly excuses. The judge who got monetary 'gifts' for different 'burials' comes to mind.
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Clinton is worth 153 million dollars (4.5 billion naira) just last year's income o
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The plagues of Egypt be upon them!
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Cos of wetin
Na dem say make una no like moni
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Nothing short of the death penalty will deter these satanic bastards from stealing.
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lots of death penalty in China.
Their corruption makes us look like learners


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What arrant shamelessness. What impudent, insulting and cheeky denial. The mind boggles.[/quote] who shame epp?

omenkaLives:
This is the reason we keep saying jungle justice or summary execution, or disappearance are best for these crooks.

Imagine the nerve!

did jungle justice stop ordinary bread thief?
Why do you think it will stop looters that can bribe courts and law enforcement to stay silent

sammhi:

The guy is right ! EFCC is doing a shoddy job.So what is the charge ? He said he owns the money and is left for EFCC to say the money is a proceed of crime . Failure to do so me as they have no case , technically speaking .
EFCC need to do their job professionally

In another way, EFCC says he stole money, it is left for Yakubu to prove it's not stolen.

Andrew Yakubu is desperate because instead of clicking the link on my signature and using part of his legitimate salary as Group Managing Director of NNPC to buy some marketing units he decided that its better to steal millions of dollars of public funds and keep in a slum.

Andrew Yakubu, if you had bought the marketing units you would have been earning US Dollars everyday and EFCC would never have raided your house.

Naija civil servants, politicians, bankers and private sector workers please dont steal what does not belong to you. Now that you are working use part of your legitimate salary, visit the link on my signature and buy marketing units. A word is enough for the wise.