Senator Elisha Abbo Appears Before Senate Committee, Fails To Take Oath, Says It’s Subjudice – TheNigerialawyer

A senator, Elisha Abbo, caught on camera assaulting a woman, has
appeared before a Senate committee set up to investigate the
incident.

Mr Abbo appeared before the Senate ad-hoc committee on Tuesday
afternoon.

The Adamawa senator, however, refused to take an oath before the
panel. He also refused to speak in the presence of journalists.

Persons invited before Senate committees are made to take oaths
to pledge to say the truth before they are allowed to testify.

The lawmaker and members of the committee exchanged words when
Mr Abbo insisted he would address the panel before taking an
oath.

Oluremi Tinubu, a member of the committee, had asked Mr Abbo to
swear an oath before saying anything. But he bluntly refused;
saying the case was in court.

“This matter is in court. I cannot be talking in front of
cameras when the matter is already in court. That’s subjudice,” he
said.

“Distinguished. You just joined us. We have a procedure and we
are also under law. You don’t come in here and dictate to us what
should be done,” Mrs Tinubu told the opposition senator.

“You are on the other side now. You don’t tell us what to
do…because we can suspend you,” she added.

An angry Mr Abbo promptly interjected “I will not sit here and
listen to you threaten me with suspension. I am a senator like you.
You cannot threaten me with suspension.”

There was chaos which lasted for some minutes. Journalists were
thereafter asked to the leave for the meeting to continue behind
closed doors.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Mr Abbo was caught on camera
assaulting a woman in a sex toy shop in Abuja.

The police arraigned the Adamawa senator before a court on
Monday and granted him bail of N5 million.

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Kaduna Internet Fraudster Bags Jail Term

The Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of one Emuze Omosigho
Emmanuel (aka Thomas Brooks) for offences bordering on
cheating.

Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court on July 8,
2019 found him guilty of the one-count charge preferred against him
after he pleaded “guilty” to the charge.

His journey to jail began when operatives acted on intelligence
report indicating that he engages in fraudulent activities and had
defrauded unsuspecting individuals of their hard-earned money.

The charge against him reads: “That you, Emuze Omosigho sometime
in 2019 at Kaduna within the jurisdiction of the High Court of
Kaduna State, did with intent to defraud attempted to commit an
offence to wit: Cheating against one Julia Munoz of Lubbock, Texas,
Martha French and Brenda Davis by sending them scam mails using
your Instagram, FaceBook and plenty of phishing e-mail addresses
posing as one Thomas Brooks, with the aim of obtaining financial
benefit for yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to
Section 57 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable
under the same Section.”

He along side his other conspirators forged and impersonated
documents purportedly emanating from different organisations where
they claimed to be engineers and members of other reputable
occupation.

Following his guilty plea, counsel for the EFCC, S.H Sa’ad,
informed the court of the plea bargain agreement between the
prosecution and the defence.

He was thereafter, sentenced to one year in prison with an
option of N100,000 fine.

Tony Orilade
Ag. Head, Media & Publicity
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EFCC Nabs Fake Native Doctor In Ibadan

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal
office, on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, arrested a fake native doctor,
Fatai Olalere Aliu, who was alleged to be notorious for duping
people under the guise of possessing spiritual power to their
problems.

Aliu was arrested by the operatives of the Commission during a
raid on his abode at Kisumu Estate at Odo-Ona Elewe of Ibadan, the
Oyo State capital.

Before his eventual arrest, the Commission had worked on several
intelligence reports linking him to series of fraud allegation
involving large sums of money.

He was also accused of engaging in money doubling through which
he would collect money from his victims with the promise of using
his spiritual powers to multiply the sums for them, but would
instead divert same to his personal use.

The raid led EFCC operatives to his shrines located in a thick
forest around the Ibadan-Ijebu-Ode Expressway and Kobomoje area of
the town where frightening voodoo items were sighted.

Items recovered from the suspect include three exotic cars – two
Toyota Corolla and Honda Pilot.

He also has in his possession three luxurious buildings within
Ibadan and land documents which were also recovered as
exhibits.

The suspect is under further interrogation.

Tony Orilade
Ag. Head, Media & Publicity
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EFCC Docks Civil Engineer for Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal
Office on July 9, 2019 arraigned a Civil Engineer, Hammed Lanre
before a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on a two-count
charge bordering on fraud.

Lanre was brought before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar.

Count one against him reads: “That you, Hammed Folorunsho Lanre,
on the 29th of May 2019, in Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this
honourable court, committed theft by dishonestly taking money from
Hammed Muritala when you transferred the sum of N540,000 (Five
Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira) only in 10,000 tranches 54 times
via his mobile phone from his Stanbic IBTC account into your Bet9ja
pay stack website account without his consent and thereby committed
an offence contrary to Section 286 of the Penal Code Law and
punishable under Section 287 of the same law.”

He pleaded “not guilty” when the charges were read to him.

Counsel for the EFCC, Andrew Akoja, thereafter urged the court
to fix a date for commencement of trial.

Defence counsel, R.O. Salman, however, told the court that his
client intended to enter a plea bargain with the commission.

The case has been adjourned to July 16, 2019 for “hearing”.

Tony Orilade
Ag. Head, Media & Publicity