The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 18, 2016 re-arraigned a former Head of Service, HoS, to the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court, Abuja on an amended 35-count charge bordering on stealing and obtaining money by false pretence.


In the amended charge dated November 2, 2015, Oronsaye is being charged along with Osarenkhoe Afe, Fedrick Hamilton Global Services Limited, Cluster Logistic Limitd, Kangolo Dynamic Cleaning Limited, and Drew Investment & Construction Company Limited.

Oronsaye and Afe, who is the managing director of Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited, were present in court. However, the other defendants were absent.

Prosecuting counsel, Leke Atolagbe, while citing Section 478 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, said, “We urge your lordship to enter a plea of not guilty for the defendants who are not represented in court, in order that the trial can proceed.”

Counsel to Oronsaye, Joe Agbi, SAN, raised no objections to the application of the prosecution, neither did Oluwole Aladedoye, counsel to Afe and Fedrick Hamilton Global Services Limited.

The trial judge, while acceding to the application of the prosecution, ruled that: “In the absence of the fourth, fifth and sixth defendants, Section 478 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 shall be applied to each of them, except if it is later shown that they were not served with the amended charges, in the interest of justice.”

Count one of the charges reads: “That you Stephen Oronsaye, Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina (now at large) Osarenkhoe Afe and Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited on or about 2nd July, 2010 in Abuja, collaborated in disguising genuine nature of the sum of N161,472,000 derived from an illegal act to wit: conducting procurement fraud by means of fraudulent and corrupt act on the contract extension of biometric enrolment purportedly awarded to Innovative Solutions Limited by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation without following due process and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 14 (1) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2004.”

Another count reads: “That you Stephen Oronsaye and Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina (now at large) between April and May 2010 in Abuja, collaborated in disguising genuine nature an aggregate sum of N131,038,425 derived from an illegal act to wit; conducting procurement fraud by means of fraudulent and corrupt act on the contract of biometric enrolment purportedly awarded to Moshfad Enterprises by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation without following due process and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 14 (1) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2004.”

They pleaded “not guilty” to the charges as they were read to them.

Following their plea, Atolagbe asked the court for a date for commencement of trial. He also notified the court that the prosecution had 22 witnesses it intended to present in court.

The defence counsels expressed readiness for the commencement of the trial. They further applied that Justice Kolawole allow their clients to continue with the earlier bail granted them on July 21, 2015.

The prosecution did not raise any objections to the or*l application.

In view of the fact that there was no objection to the application, the trial judge acceded to the request and further adjourned to June 9, 2016 for “commencement of judicial trial”.

It would be recalled that Oronsaye first appeared before Justice Kolawole on July 13, 2015, where he was confronted with a 25-count charge, to which along with his co-defendants they pleaded not guilty. The trial judge had fixed February 16, 2016 for them to enter their plea for the amended charges.

The case file, was however, afterwards transferred to Justice J. T. Tsoho of a Federal High Court, Abuja. Presiding over the case for the first time on February 16, 2016, he added

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FTC..finally after a one year abscene,e no easy at all!


well back to the matter

it seems the wind of change is really blowing hard in all sectors.

well nice one,keep it coming EFCC and please don't forget the corrupt ogas at the top ooooh.their cases need to be reasoned.

CzarRex:
FTC..finally after a one year abscene,e no easy at all!
well back to the matter
it seems the wind of change is really blowing hard in all sectors.
well nice one,keep it coming EFCC and please don't forget the corrupt ogas at the top ooooh.their cases need to be reasoned.

Na mumu MTN make u beat me to FTC I swear EFCC go soon come arrest u sef...cos u re corrupt at ur own level

It bothers me.... Is there NO Honest person in
Government Is there not anyone who can really hold an Office in Nigeria and just do clean business and nothing shady










For this kind situation,
Kuku kill me..

they want to shift our attention by all means...

we are undeterred.
#NoToFuelPriceIncrement

Like if u think Buhari is better a President dan Jonathan
Share if u think Jonathan is better a President dan Buhari

They shud jst tear all dz pple scrotums apart

probe them all until ths country is free from corrupt individuals

#takemeback to when politicians dreaded using Ghana must go to steal money

Fantastically corrupt people

Check my signature

Another corrupt rogue makes frontpage

these people are the reasons why Nigeria is where it is today

It all goes down one way or the other. But APC better pray to win 2019, cos if PDP comes back in, the arrests will be massive too. None of them is clean, they've just not been caught with their hands in cookiejar

More Grace... all the stolen money must come back home

[size=18pt]Pa Oronsaye, the epaa from Bini kingdom, so you follow them to chop yam? Now it is payback time.

Pa Oronsaye you embarrassed the edos to join them to chop yam.[/size]

I'm waiting for those who'll cry witch-hunting as usual.

the rogues are just too much.

Another one!

thereturnoflucy:


Na mumu MTN make u beat me to FTC I swear EFCC go soon come arrest u sef...cos u re corrupt at ur own level

do u have any proof that I am corrupt?