By JUMI RHODES


Former Minister of Aviation, Prof. Babalola Borishade served in 3 ministries during ex-president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's 1st and 2nd terms. In 2004, Prof. Borishade was appointed Minister of State, Power and Steel; between July 2005 and November 2006, he was Minister of Aviation; then appointed, Minister of Culture and Tourism, a position he held till May 2007 at the expiration of Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar tenure. Obasanjo's daughter Damilola married Borishade's son Tope in 2014: it was at this point the former president and ex-minister became in-laws.


These may not be the best of times for Prof. Borishade as Justice Abubakar Sadiq Umar of the FCT High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, yesterday, refused to stop further hearing on a suit filed by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) against him(Borishade), and 4 others for allegedly mismanaging N5.2 billion Aviation Safe Tower contract. The others are Borisade's former personal assistant, Tunde Dairo; former Managing Director of Nigeria Airspace Management Agency, Rowland Iyayi; an Australian, George Eider and Avsatel Communications Ltd. The trial begain in November 2009, when they were arraigned by the EFCC on a 15-count charge of taking bribe and forging aviation contract documents.


The matter which was initially scheduled for Wednesday, February 3, 2016, could not go on as planned as the Attorney General of the Federation(AGF) requested for a brief on the case by the EFCC since the matter had been in court for about seven years. Ruling on the application, yesterday, Justice Umar said the application by counsel to the defendants to foreclose or discharge the defendants was refused and ordered the prosecution to continue its case.


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Nobody is above the law!

o pe o

If buhari will really fight corruption n collect looted fund, Baba iyabo must be question.
Abj rail Project............. let start frm there.........

As long as it's gonna be as thorough and in-depth as Olisa Metuh, Dasuki and others..It's a great move in the right direction!

Kreamie:
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Gradually its getting to OBJ himself.

nice one

Good.. Very good

They shud invite obj too. Na man na confirmed thief..

True

yemmight:


Gradually its getting to OBJ himself.

very good

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Let him face justice, nobody is above the law. If found guilty, appropriate sanction should be meted.

Yes o! No one is untouchable.

Nigeria get money o.

I hope the wailers will not term this one witch hunting

Why caption it OBJ's inlaw?






ThefakeStan

Well, let see how is going to be.

How could just a single man be a minister in different unrelated sectors? Is he that versatile? This happens in Nigeria alone. More reason we are where we are today. Nepotism is an enemy of development

I believe EFCC is not serious. All these people facing trials when are they going to jail them? We need to see result to these trials and not media hype.

lonelydora:
I believe EFCC is not serious. All these people facing trials when are they going to jail them? We need to see result to these trials and not media hype.

In other words, the efcc and it's agents are just toothless bulldogs........

Very good

It's very close to baba himself Ebora irunmole tipa tipa... Efcc please go after baba.

Facing EFCC trial is no longer a big issue in Nigeria.

The way them dey call billion for this country sha, even bill gate go fear

Kelvinbabyface1:
It's very close to baba himself Ebora irunmole tipa tipa... Efcc please go after baba.

Oga nothing, I say nothing will happen to the apc navigator(obj). Obj brought the efcc, and he knows they can't arrest him.

Abeg leave trash for lawma, no be today Yansh dey back.......

Dignified treasury rapists, raping her mother since the time of IBB

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