The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday began the enforcement of a court order to take over the assets and property of a former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, in different locations in the country.



Operatives of the EFCC began the enforcement in Abuja based on the order of Justice M.B Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos.



Two or the 11 property, located in Abuja, were the first to be taken over by EFCC operatives. Eight others are located in Benin City, Edo State and Victoria Island, Lagos.



Another house, located at 29 Sheldon Avenue, Highgate, London, was also listed among the property to be forfeited to the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.



Justice Idris had on February 28 ordered that Igbinedion’s assets be forfeited to the government pending the determination of the charge in suit number FHC/B/11C/2011.



Other property the EFCC took over on Tuesday included a block of four flats at 43 Etete Road, Benin; Chicken Republic on Sapele Road, Benin City; a parcel of land at 3, Boundary Road, Benin City; a building covered by approved plan number 2041/2004 at 20B Etete Road, Benin City; a building known as White House located along Ugbor Police Station Road and a mighty house at the neighbourhood of Etete and Ugbor Layout, Benin City.



The property to be forfeited in Lagos is located at 55C, Adebisi Close, Off Samauel Adedoyin Street, Victoria Island, Lagos while those in Abuja are landed properties at 5, Danube Crescent, Maitama and 7, Justice Fatai Williams Street, off Justice Sowemimo Street, Abuja.



Igbinedion, who was governor of Edo State between 1999 and 2003, is facing charges of alleged unlawful conversion and criminal diversion of fund by the EFCC.



The former governor and six others are facing a 66-count-charge on money laundering and mismanagement of public funds amounting to about N3.2bn.



The other accused persons are Patrick Eboigbodin; Michael Igbinedion and four firms: Gava Corporation Limited; Romrig Nigeria Limited, PML Securities Limited and PML (Nigeria) Limited.






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What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul. After amassing all these properties he can only live in one at a time. imagine if the amount looted to fund one of his houses was spent building a hospital school or road.

Good news

Am very happy over this good news.
I have been wishing for this to happen.

This thief killed my state.

but i go miss that branch of Chiken Republic o, I was there twice last week

Just googled it (29 Sheldon Ave, Haringey, London N6 4JP)
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&biw=1276&bih=813&q=29+Sheldon+Avenue,+Highgate,+London&wrapid=tlif129967715558911&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=29+Sheldon+Ave,+London+N6+4JP&gl=uk&ei=gIF3Tb3uCYOAhQf4vJn4Bg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CB4Q8gEwAA

Free Igbinedion for me, Who God bless no man can course, i wish Efcc let him rest permanetly,

daroz:

Good news

how is it good news? not as if it wouldnt be returned back to him at the end of the day. we eventually never hear the end product of these seizures.

Naija is messed up. this is just for the news.

snowdrops:

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul. After amassing all these properties he can only live in one at a time. imagine if the amount looted to fund one of his houses was spent building a hospital school or road.

you took the words out of my mouth,

Good

This might prove to be a tip of the ice berg if EFCC care to probe deeper.The man was Governor from 1999-2007 during which time the infrastructure of a whole state  was in complete ruin (and I am talking by Nigerian standard).

There is nothing to be proud about bringing a case of N3.2b against Lucky Igbinedion

Good one!

Thats good news. I wish they will hang him for good. He wont be missed at all. His heart is as ugly as is face.

i knw one day Nigeria will surely be like this. this is wot we are saying, we want the truth,

I have waited for a very long time for this to happen. please NO PLEA BARGAIN OH

It wz a shock 2 me durin my 1st visit to d state capital(BENIN) after all ol dat hz bn heard about it rich culture,and history. I wz so disappoint to find d place hw it wz and hv to ask if they truely hv leaders or even allocatn frm d fed.gov. Kudos 2 comrade govnor. Luck shld b treatd as an animal whch he truely his. Wot about his university to shld b enlist.

A charge of N3.2bn theft?
That's an insult to d govt & people of Edo state.
That guy was given a N2bn World Bank Ecological loan to assist in d construction of roads and drainages in d erosion threatened area, from New Benin to the Ikpoba river. He tarred a few, dug some drainages, sand-filled some pot-holes, graded some roads, and that was it.
It was this same guy who told us he used N2,000,000,000 to host OBJ on a 2-day presidential visit to d state.
Same Lucky told us that; "EDUCATION IS A PRIVILEGE NOT A RIGHT."
Lucky should be made to cough out every SINGLE kobo.

k9ine:

A charge of N3.2bn theft?
That's an insult to d govt & people of Edo state.
That guy was given a N2bn World Bank Ecological loan to assist in d construction of roads and drainages in d erosion threatened area, from New Benin to the Ikpoba river. He tarred a few, dug some drainages, sand-filled some pot-holes, graded some roads, and that was it.
It was this same guy who told us he used N2,000,000,000 to host OBJ on a 2-day presidential visit to d state.
Same Lucky told us that; "EDUCATION IS A PRIVILEGE NOT A RIGHT."
Lucky should be made to cough out every SINGLE kobo.

Quoted for truth.

dave2:

Am very happy over this good news.
I have been wishing for this to happen.

This thief killed my state.

you are too gullible to say that if I may say,, this is all about politics. The idea is for him to deliver Edo state to them.
Mark my word, after this election you wont hear anything from EFCC again
Whether we like it or not Edo state politics is still in the hands of Lucky and Capt. Osa

daroz:

but i go miss that branch of Chiken Republic o, I was there twice last week

LMAO

I still cannot believe some people are actually 'gulping' this kind of news under a Goodluck leadership.

EFCC is staging-up some drama since GEJ has been consistently criticized in resent months for being corrupt and showing no sign of fighting corruption. All Igbinedion just needs to do is to become more involved in GEJ presidential campaigns and he will even be rewarded with more loots.

Stop hoping for any positive change under GEJ or you go sleep here.,.,.,


[size=24pt]Vote Buhari-Bakare 2011[/size] _{for the future of our children}

walk into thread singing, *THIEF, OLE, cari am go*

look at were ur greed has landed u OLEBURUKU. how many room can u sleep on at a time?

OKO PRISON await u because dat's were u belong.BARAWO.

All we know as Bini is that the Osama's family is cursed and it started from the Oba. Even if Gabriel goes scot free, Osama'a family will crumble down for what they did to Bini.

Shave that hin Ugly Moustache and feed him with it, Ole Oloriburuku, heartless idiots, , can you imagine the fool, all his transactions were so transparent, he just wakes up in the morning and tell the Accountant General of the state to transfer money into 1 or 2 of his sinblings accounts.

Most of these transfer destinations had The Igbinedion Familyy name on it, This fella is 1 BIG MoDA F o r ker,  and his siblings will be driving up and down London/US in Drop Top Bentleys as if they worked for it.

GOD PUNISH YOU ALL. " as wholes"

Pornodude:

how is it good news? not as if it wouldnt be returned back to him at the end of the day. we eventually never hear the end product of these seizures.

Naija is messed up. this is just for the news.

abi o, tell them

After all these lands and houses here and there how many rooms can he sleep at once? This foolishness of man to gain everything in the world. Forgetting that the reason God blessed him with all these is to be a blessing to others. May God have mercy on him.

, if all these facts are true, my prayer for him is that God should touch his heart for him to realize his wrongs and quickly repent before Jesus comes.