{"id":85432,"date":"2021-08-31T21:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=85432"},"modified":"2021-08-31T23:21:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:21:45","slug":"gov-bellos-admin-of-fraud-court-freezes-kogi-state-account-in-sterling-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/gov-bellos-admin-of-fraud-court-freezes-kogi-state-account-in-sterling-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov Bello\u2019s Admin of Fraud: Court freezes Kogi state account in Sterling Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1709637124998952787\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday has ordered the freezing of Kogi State salary bailout account number 0073572696 domiciled in Stealing Bank Plc over a N20 billion loan obtained from the Bank.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Justice Tijjani Garba Ringim made the freezing order of the said account pending the conclusion of investigation or possible prosecution by the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">EFCC had approached the court for the order in an ex-parte application \u00a0brought pursuant to section 44(2) of the Constitution and section 34(1) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act and under the inherent jurisdiction of the court.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A counsel from the agency, A. O. Mohammed, informed the court that the order was necessary so as to \u00a0preserve the res and abate further dissipation of the funds in the account.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Moving the application, Mohammed \u00a0told the court that the N20 billion loan meant to augment the salary payment and running cost of the State Government was kept in an interest yielding account with Sterling bank.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added that instead of using the money for the purpose it was meant for, Sterling Bank Plc acting on the instruction of the Kogi State Government transferred the money from the loan account and placed same in a fixed deposit account.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He stated that Sterling Bank Plc is yet to present any credible evidence to show that the facility is well secured.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Granting the application, Justice Ringim ordered the EFCC to publish the order in a national newspaper and made quarterly report to the court on the progress of it\u2019s investigation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The judge consequently adjourned the matter till December 1, for the report of Investigation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The EFCC in its 13-paragraph affidavit in support of the ex-parte originating summons deposed to by a member of a team of investigators attached to the Chairman Monitoring Unit Lagos of the EFCC, stated that the Commission received a credible and direct intelligence which led to the tracing of funds reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities warehoused in account No. 0073572696 domiciled in Sterling Bank, Plc with the name Kogi State Salary Bailout Account<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said the Commission acted on the said intelligence and assigned same to the Chairman Monitoring Unit, where it was discovered that on the \u00a0April 1, 2019 the management of Sterling Bank Plc approved an offer of N20,000,000,000.00 bailout loan facility for Kogi State Government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the deponent, on the June 19, 2019 fiscal year, the Kogi State Government, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, office of the Honourable Commissioner, applied for Credit facility of Twenty Billion Naira N 20, 000,000,000, with an interest rate of 9 percent for a tenure of 240 months from Sterling Bank Plc\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added that the said facility was meant toxd augment the salary payment and running cost of the State Government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He stated further that on June 26, 2019 the credit facility offer was accepted vide a memorandum of acceptance signed by the His Excellency, Yahaya Bello, the Executive Governor of Kogi State, Asiwaju Asiru idris, the Commissioner of Finance Kogi State and one Alhaji Momoh Jibrin, Accountant General, Kogi State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He stated that prior to the said application for loan, Kogi State Government on the 19th June, 2019 vide a letter to the Manager Sterling Bank Plc, Lokoja applied for an account opening in the Bank with the name Kogi State Salary Bailout Account with Alhaji Momoh Jubril, accountant General of the State and Elijah Evinemi Ag. Director Treasury as the signatories to the said account. Attached and marked exhibit EFCC 04 is a copy of the said letter.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat upon the opening of the said account with No. 0072969301, Sterling bank Plc disbursed salary intervention loan to the tune of N20,000,000,000.00 to the account.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat rather than used the intervention funds for the purpose for which it was granted, the State Government proceeded to open a fix deposit account No. 0073572696.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat on the 25 day of July,2019 Sterling Bank Plc acting on the instruction of the Kogi State Government transferred the money from the loan account and placed same on aforementioned fixed deposit account.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat the said Account sought to be frozen received the Sum of Twenty Billion Naira, (N20, 000,000,000) on the 25th July 2019.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat as at 1st day of April, 2021 the balance standing to the credit of the said fixed deposit account was N19, 333, 333, 333.36 billion<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat we are still tracing what the sum of N666,666,666.64 b has been deducted from the said funds and were not used for the payment of the salary.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat the Commission has the statutory mandate to prevent the Commission of economic and financial Crimes with the shores of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat investigation in this matter is still ongoing and this application is pertinent to secure the funds in the said account to prevent them from being totally dissipated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat without freezing the nominated accounts, there is no better way of preserving rest\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday has ordered the freezing of Kogi State salary bailout account number 0073572696 domiciled in Stealing Bank Plc over a N20 billion&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive","category-pointblanknews-investigations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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