The Maitama FCT High Court , on Friday granted the request of the EFCC to detain Mohammed Adoke, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice for 14 days.
Justice Othman Musa granted the order after EFCC brought a motion ex-parte through its counsel Ms Fatima Mustapha, seeking to hold the former minister in its custody for 14 days.
Nigeria's former attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke was reportedly extradited from Dubai in order to face corruption allegations against him in Nigerian Court.
Adoke who was late last month arrested and detained in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. by INTERPOL was deported yesterday, taken into custody upon arrival at the Nnamidi Azikwe International airport in Abuja yesterday
EFCC had charged Adoke and the others, in a case marked FCT/HC/CR/124/17, bordering on fraudulent allocation of the Oil Prospecting Licence 245 and other forms of offences involving the sum of about $1.2 billion, forgery of bank documents, bribery and corruption.
The alleged $1.2 billion scam involved the transfer of the OPL 245 purportedly from Malabu Oil and Gas Limited to Shell Nigeria Exploration Production Co. Limited and Nigeria Agip Exploration Limited.
Justice Othman Musa granted the order after EFCC brought a motion ex-parte through its counsel Ms Fatima Mustapha, seeking to hold the former minister in its custody for 14 days.
Nigeria's former attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke was reportedly extradited from Dubai in order to face corruption allegations against him in Nigerian Court.
Adoke who was late last month arrested and detained in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. by INTERPOL was deported yesterday, taken into custody upon arrival at the Nnamidi Azikwe International airport in Abuja yesterday
EFCC had charged Adoke and the others, in a case marked FCT/HC/CR/124/17, bordering on fraudulent allocation of the Oil Prospecting Licence 245 and other forms of offences involving the sum of about $1.2 billion, forgery of bank documents, bribery and corruption.
The alleged $1.2 billion scam involved the transfer of the OPL 245 purportedly from Malabu Oil and Gas Limited to Shell Nigeria Exploration Production Co. Limited and Nigeria Agip Exploration Limited.
Following the inability of the EFCC to present the defendants for arraignment then, Justice Danladi Senchi of FCT High Court, upon an application by the anti-graft agency on April 17, issued a bench warrant for their arrest.
The newly granted order was to enable the anti-graft agency conclude its investigation on Adoke over corruption allegations.
NAN reports that Adoke returned to the country after five years self-exile in Dubai.
The newly granted order was to enable the anti-graft agency conclude its investigation on Adoke over corruption allegations.
NAN reports that Adoke returned to the country after five years self-exile in Dubai.
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