By Yusuf Alli, Abuja

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Monday said it had seized $919,202.07 (about N450 million) hidden in a bank account by some court officials.

It said the cash was kept in an interest-yielding account by some officials of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, in 2014.

A statement by the commission’s spokesperson, Mrs. Azuka C. Ogugua, said: “Acting on a petition instituted against some officials of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt for alleged corrupt practices, the ICPC has obtained an Interim Forfeiture Order on $919,202.07 (approximately N450 million) fraudulently hidden in a bank account.

“Investigators in the Rivers State office of the commission traced the money that had been hidden in an interest-yielding account by officials of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt since 2014.

“On discovery of the hidden money, the ICPC, through its lawyer, Dr. Agada Akogwu, filed an ex parte motion for an Interim Order of Forfeiture of the money.

“In his ruling, Justice Mohammed Sani of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, granted the commission’s prayers for interim forfeiture of the said sum, pending the final hearing on the matter.

“The judge further ruled that the ‘orders of the court directing the interim forfeiture shall be published in any daily newspaper within 14 working days for any person interested in the said property sought to be forfeited to appear before the court to show cause why the final forfeiture orders be not made in favour of the Federal Government of Nigeria’.

“The matter was adjourned till December 14, 2020 for reports and final forfeiture hearing.”

https://thenationonlineng.net/icpc-uncovers-n450m-hidden-in-bank-account-by-court-officials/

This country no get value again, very soon, they sale this country.

even judicial officials, everybody na thief

Okay...




I would have been apoplectic about this news and would have spewed my numerous words of disappointment of how corrupt a nation could be, if not that I have come to understand the bad fact about Nigeria, and to an extension, Africa;

eviribodi na teef.


"speak for yourself",of course I will, until you find out that ICPC itself is utterly corrupt.

Na wa oo

Which kain country I dey so?

Corruption is an animal

ICPC too sef na teef

This country don tire me. All this moni wey dem dey call they make eye turn me.

Kindly check us for your top quality furniture work.

What a nation! Justice for highest bidder

Na wa o,, nigerians no fit sleep again because of hunger.. Imagine see d time people dey commend on nairaland booking space.. Abeg how I go take get visa to Peru?

who knows the cost of Bangladesh passport?

Let them ask the Registrar and the Presiding Judge in 2014. They definitely would be stammering.

Hmmnnn

Kleptomaniac society where the order of the day is to steal everything stealable....country of unrepentant looters from the heads of the country to the smallest office boys..Nigerian steals everything stealable (pardon my English) cos they don't believe in the survival of the country long ago.....it's finished for the government of Nigeria. It's finished for this country....

This country nawao..even the judiciary too? ....all the same nothing will be done to this scumbags looting the country dry all na figures ..I don tire to complain

Money paid to hijack justice. It has been happening for long. This one just got detected. That you have video, audio or any concrete evidence of a crime does not mean the criminal will be punished. What determines a court judgement now include influence, position and connection of either the prosecution or the accused who might be the criminal. Ask senator Elisha Ishaku whose assault video went viral yet nothing happened. We only heard money dancing somewhere

Make we just sell ths country,make everyone collect his or her share

Nothing surprises me anymore in this country since the day our supposed palliatives were discovered in a warehouse.

If they can thief that kind size of food stuffs then how much is ordinary figure smh.

Another corruption news to help us get zabamari off our minds.

I can't say anything cos i'm dumbfounded. Money isn't circulating, naira is depreciating and some people are stealing this huge sum of money. O ti pari bayii, olorun nikan ni o le gba wa!

Do they need to ask anybody? Is there any bank account without the details of the owner?

Whiteshield:
Let them ask the Registrar and the Presiding Judge in 2014. They definitely would be stammering.

What do you expect from a country like Nigeria, failed cursed country built on lies and deceits.

Nigeria is design to fail. The more it's failing the more it’s wasting your time as a youth, before you know it you’re getting old without having anything to show for it.

Hehehee, they want to distract us


Which court official

Nigeria on Auto cruise since 1889.

This corntree is a joke

Lol my uncle Don do papers for all en pikin go Canada ..and I quote " Boy the way this country is going, our leaders want to wreck us and I don't want my children to be caught up in this havoc ...Nigeria has failed, is failing and would still fail ...Please my son try and jakpa"

Right now I'm on some hustling shit legally and illegally
Right now I'm on some bitcoin shit
Every now and then I hit some jakpa odds on bookmakers
Right now my head is always calculating up and down even when walking, in traffic, in the toilet .. everywhere

Just to make that Mula
God help us

Normal thing

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