Simplyleo:
Well, personally, I think this is wrong.

Yes, he was an accountant but the assumption that he influenced inflation of contract for personal gain remains an assumption and that shouldn't be an evidence against him.

For government to raise accusation against a person, they have evidence already. They secure that court order with that evidence.

the only way an asset can ever be seized is when you cannot confirm it was acquired through legal streams of income.

if you can prove it was acquired through legal means then the court would not ask for its forfeiture.

Simplyleo:
Well, personally, I think this is wrong.

Yes, he was an accountant but the assumption that he influenced inflation of contract for personal gain remains an assumption and that shouldn't be an evidence against him.

Why didn't he explain (beyond reasonable doubt) where he got the money from?

GideonOludayomi:
Government workers are not expected to have another work or business. So, if he does and he admits to it, he may be shooting himself on the foot.
Meanwhile, it would appear that he was smart enough to have relinquished the asset.

you are right. The initial rule was that civil and public servants are not allowed to do any business. But later an amendment was made that they can engage in subsistence (not commercial) agriculture. They can also buy shares. but then the understanding is that the value of shares would be commensurate to his earnings. even where there is gain/bonus on the shares, they are easily explainable. In the case of Momonu, the EFCC apparently gave him opportunity to explain how he came about the wealth, but he chose not to toe that line probably to avoid creating for the EFCC another insight into other properties

Oh

Exponental:
What if collected his fathers' gratuities and he sold the houses his parents had in lekki, surulere and Ikeja

Exactly how criminals thinks.

But mind you, He paid many lawyers to defend him in court, He might have come up with more better lies than the one you just said, but he has no prove to defend it.

Burutai and other generals have more than #150. Even common Yusuf ( Buhari's son ) that isn't working has a power Bike that is over #100 milano. Just Imagine what will be in Yusuf's bank balance.


Just recently, a general was conveying over #400 milano than went into Asylum - courtesy of some smart soldiers.

yns4real:
A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, on Thursday, ordered the final forfeiture of a plaza valued at N150 million belonging to a civil servant in Kwara State, Rasaq Momonu to the Federal Government.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Office had approached the Court to give an order of final forfeiture of Asmau Plaza situated in University Road, Tanke Area of Ilorin after a reasonable suspicion that the said property was acquired with proceeds of unlawful activity.

Delivering the Judgment in the case of Thursday, Justice Sikiru Oyinloye held that the EFCC had fulfilled all the requirements of the law in the suit and thereby ordered that the said property should be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

“I have gone through the application brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, I also sighted the hearing notice issued to the respondent in the suit, Rasaq Momonu. This Honourable Court is persuaded that he had been served with the Court Processes.

The application brought by the EFCC is meritorious and granted. This Honourable Court hereby order the final forfeiture of the Landed property known as Asmau Plaza, Tanke Road, Ilorin, Kwara State to the Federal Government of Nigeria”

In the affidavit deposed to by Musa Gidado, an investigating officer with the EFCC, he urged the judge to order the final forfeiture of the Plaza which is suspected to be a proceed of unlawful activity.

“Investigations revealed that Rasaq Momonu used his influence as an Accountant with Kwara State Government to inflate and award contracts for the construction of two classrooms at Ogbondoroko and Obanisuwa Community In Kwara State.

“Investigations further revealed that the respondent who is a Civil Servant that earns less than N100,000 in a month cannot afford to build the house known as Asmau Plaza between 2010 -2012m.

“That I know as a fact that the respondent was confronted with the above findings by the applicant which he did not dispute and has agreed to forfeit the property known as Asmau Plaza to the Federal Government of Nigeria”, he said.

Moving the application for final forfeiture on Thursday, Counsel to the Applicant, Nnaemeka Omewa, urged the court to grant the order based on the provisions of Section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.

“My Lord, We have a motion on notice dated 19th July 2019 and filed on the same day, the motion is brought pursuant to section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud and other fraud-related Offences, I urged the Court to grant the motion.

Justice Oyinloye, however, granted the application and resolved all the issues raised in favour of the EFCC.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/231012/amp/

. fair hearing has been ensured.He dekibrateky did not come for the hearing on the application.After a considerable time has passed it is assumed that he has agreed to the request .The judgement is in order....Additionally politicians know how to steal government fund.They can use any staff to stash government fund and achieve their heinous aims...

Exponental:
What if collected his fathers' gratuities and he sold the houses his parents had in lekki, surulere and Ikeja

If that were the case,would have been an easy case for his lawyer(s) to handle.
We really have a long way to go in this country the way the oppressed try to defend the unfortunate oppressors.

fykes:
To the federal government a property is forefeited from a state government worker..... Did he loot FG s money or Kwara state money?

Kwara state get Moni?

manitoba:
I thought it should go to Kwara State Government and not FGN.

exactly my thought. Each state should have its its anticorruption/financial crime agency with a view to recover looted funds to state treasury.

GideonOludayomi:
Government workers are not expected to have another work or business. So, if he does and he admits to it, he may be shooting himself on the foot.
Meanwhile, it would appear that he was smart enough to have relinquished the asset.

Really? Quote pls.
Thanks

GOFRONT:
Someone cannot build a plaza in peace again.?

He must have declared his asset to cbb so no need to argue.They will sort it out