Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has been denied bail by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he was invited for questioning earlier on Thursday.

SaharaReporters had on Wednesday reported that Obasa and some top accounting officials in the Lagos Assembly were invited by the EFCC for questioning.

Obasa honoured the invitation at about 10:00am on Thursday and was grilled for many hours by top officials of the anti-graft agency.

Against his expectations, he was denied bail by the EFCC, forcing him to be kept for the night at the commission's office.

SaharaReporters gathered that Obasa's wife, accused of collecting N10m monthly allowance from the Assembly's coffers, was invited earlier in the week by the EFCC and was granted bail after hours of grilling.

Upon her release, she was said to have accused wives of other lawmakers in the Lagos Assembly of abandoning her in such period of crisis despite also enjoying from the free disbursement of public funds by her husband.

Recall that SaharaRepoters had earlier reported that the EFCC obtained a court order granting the temporary forfeiture of three bank accounts belonging to Obasa.

The court order was obtained from the Federal High Court, Lagos, on September 15, 2020.

The bank accounts are to be frozen pending an investigation by the EFCC.

The three bank accounts frozen are domiciled in Standard Chartered Bank under the name Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.

In obtaining the ex-parte order, the EFCC said that the bank accounts were being investigated for conspiracy, diversion of funds, abuse of office and money laundering.

SaharaReporters had in series of reports detailed how Obasa had engaged in looting of public funds since he became Speaker of the Assembly.

The online news publication revealed how he operated over 64 bank accounts using different names to steal public funds.

To conceal his identity, the Speaker changed his name and date of birth in some of the accounts.

Aside from using Ajayi Mudashiru Obasa, he also used Obasa Abdulrahman Gbadunola and Gabriel Adedoyin Savage to register some of the bank accounts.

SaharaReporters also exposed how Obasa awarded contracts to himself using different companies owned by him and how he got the Assembly to approve N258m for the printing of invitation cards for the inauguration of lawmakers two months after the event held.
http://saharareporters.com/2020/10/08/breaking-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-denied-bail-efcc-spend-night-commissions-office
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Interesting

Obasa cup of atrocities is full

Goodnews
I desist corrupt politicians. They are cankerworms. Lagos must be free from.

#teamfreelagos#

99 days for the thief...1 day for Efcc!!!

good.

suddenly EFCC, the courts and the media are taking the battle to bullion van politicians. Hope Asiwaju won't head out for London soon because the weeks to come may be hotter for him and the bullion van disciples.

Good for him.... Chop alone die alone

The campaign against Mr Tinubu continues.

In a sane country, the prison would be his only protector from being lynched.

Have no sympathy for these looters whatever their color or allegiance may be. Be sure, none of them is on your side, have your interest or gives a hoot about you and I hope everyone of them goes down and they will.

They have ruined our nation; and they are set to ruining next whatever future there may be.

The money that could have been put to equip the medical clinic or school in your constituency; they have wasted on one bottle of wine and siphoned to their bullion van masters.

Why should a speaker spend a night ? Will they be interviewing him through the night ? Abeg release him on self recognition

Hmmmm its good for him na....

wonderful
the funny thing be say EFCC sef na criminal organization

wonderful
the funny thing be say EFCC sef na criminal organization

Nice one! So an equally corrupt EFCC can find find it biting teeth again? No this is clear witch hunting masquerading as anti-corruption fight just to tell the Bullion van man that he needs to calm down.

E Don happen...

Tinubu being raped

Jesu!!

Imagine he operated 64 different bank accounts to steal funds...they won't feed d poor,,all they do is lavish money and inflict suffering on the less privilege...Agege boys dey with u#MAFO

jlinkd78:
Tinubu being raped

Vigorously too...

Bombastically00:
Imagine he operated 64 different bank accounts to steal funds...they won't feed d poor,,all they do is lavish money and inflict suffering on the less privilege...Agege boys dey with u#MAFO

All they need to do is to feed NGpatriot and seunmsg with crumbs and they will start singing the praises of those stealing their patrimony.

I have never seen a worse case of mental emptiness like what these guys are displaying.

Goodnight Mr speaker and have a wonderful dream

FarahAideed:
Why should a speaker spend a night ? Will they be interviewing him through the night ? Abeg release him on self recognition

They are bargaining with him for EFCC share of future dividends, we know politicians love midnight, wee hour meetings.

nairanaira12:


All they need to do is to feed NGpatriot and seunmsg with crumbs and they will start singing the praises of those stealing their patrimony.

I have never seen a worse case of mental emptiness like what these guys are displaying.

Just imagine a kerosene lamp raining curses on a rechargeable touch? You better look at the man in the mirror first like MJ?

nairanaira12:


All they need to do is to feed NGpatriot and seunmsg with crumbs and they will start singing the praises of those stealing their patrimony.

I have never seen a worse case of mental emptiness like what these guys are displaying.

imagine during lockdown,,obasa told them to share #50 bread in agege,,loaded in two buses..thats what he can do for his local govt.

Bombastically00:
Imagine he operated 64 different bank accounts to steal funds...they won't feed d poor,,all they do is lavish money and inflict suffering on the less privilege...Agege boys dey with u#MAFO

You want someone to come and spoon feed you in Lagos State no man’s land?, the sooner you move to Ijebu the better for you.

See him Agbero head ! Theif head!

Bombastically00:
imagine during lockdown,,obasa told them to share #50 bread in agege,,loaded in two buses..thats what he can do for his local govt.

What did the speaker of your own state assembly do for you?I know some Governors of oil producing states that where sharing garri in nylon bags, with a piece of fish.

blacknp:
You want someone to come and spoon feed you in Lagos State no man’s land?, the sooner you move to Ijebu the better for you.

am living fine without him helping me in anything...funds meant for d people are been looted by dis criminals and u expect me to support him..he will definitely get his reward either on earth or in hell..