Ambassador Ayo Oke, ex-DG, NIA.
The planned arraignment of the former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) director general, Ambassador Ayo Oke and his wife, Mrs. Folashade Ayodele Oke by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which was scheduled to take place on Friday, February 1, has been moved to Wednesday February 6, 2019 due to the absence of the suspects who were said to be outside the country.
But the prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, was quoted on Friday as saying that the arraignment was postponed because it was not listed on the cause list of Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke for the day.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has slammed a 4-count
charge of alleged $205.9 million fraud on a former Director General of the
National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayo Oke and his wife, Mrs.
Folashade Ayodele Oke.
The charge is coming after Oke was suspended from office after his agency
laid claim to the the sums of $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000
recovered by the EFCC from Flat 7B, No. 16, Osborne Road, Osborne Towers,
Ikoyi, Lagos.
Some of the counts against Oke and his wife reads thus:
“That you Ambassador Ayodele Oke, Mrs. Folashade Ayodele Oke, on or about the 12th day of April, 2017 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this
Honourable Court indirectly conceal the sum of $43,449,947.00, property of
the Federal Government of Nigeria in Flat 7B, No. 16, Osborne Road, Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms
part of proceeds of unlawful act to wit: criminal breach of trust and you
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (a) of the Money
Laundering (Prohibition) Amendment Act 2012 and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act.
“That you you Ambassador Ayodele Oke and Mrs. Folashade Ayodele Oke,
between 25th day of August, 2015 and 2nd day of September, 2015 in Lagos
within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court indirectly used the sum of
$1, 658, 000.00 property of the Federal Government of Nigeria to acquire
Flat 7B, No. 16, Osborne Road, Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, which sum you
reasonably ought to have known forms part of proceeds of unlawful act to
wit: criminal breach of trust and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Amendment Act
2012 and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act.
“That you Ambassador Ayodele Oke, between 25th day of August, 2015 and 2nd day of September, 2015 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court directly converted the sum of $160, 777, 136. 85, property of the Federal Government of Nigeria to your own use which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of proceeds of unlawful act to wit: criminal breach of trust and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Amendment Act 2012 and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act”.
The duo are expected to be arraigned before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke on Wednesday 6th of February, 2019.
