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Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu on
Friday, December 21, 2018, ordered the interim forfeiture of assets and
properties traced to one Ngozi Olejeme, a former chairman of Nigeria
Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF and also the Deputy Chairman, Finance
Committee of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation in the 2015
election.A statement from the EFCC says Justice Ojukwu granted the
application and ruled that “an order is hereby made attaching/forfeiting
in the interim, all assets and properties set out in the schedule
attached to this application, to the Federal Government of Nigeria,
pending the hearing and determination of the trial in Charge No.
CR/365/17 pending at”.The order was made, sequel to an Ex-parte
Originating Summons, filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, through its counsel, Elizabeth Alabi, on December 12,
2018, praying the court for the following orders:“An order of interim
attachment/forfeiture of the asset attachment of the properties set out
in the schedule attached herein”.“An order stopping any disposal,
conveyance, mortgage, lease, sale or alienation or otherwise of the
properties/assets described in the schedule attached herein”.The
schedule of properties referred to in the Summons include: parcels of
lands, duplexes, a bank building, and hotel buildings, amongst
others.Some of them are: one storey semi-detached residential building,
located at house/flat 86, 11 Crescent, Kado estate, Abuja; a fenced plot
of land with C of O No. DTSR16326, located at plots 104 and 105, Block
IV, Phase V, Core Area, Asaba, Delta state; Six units of one bedroom
apartment; one unit of five bedroom bungalow; a block of six units of
office space, all located at 196, Melford Okilo road, Amarata-Epie,
Yenegoa, Bayelsa state.Others include: one duplex and 4 house
residential building with swimming pool, gate house, fully furnished
with state of the art facilities, located at No. 25 Kainji Crescent, off
Maitama, Abuja. This same property is also known as plot No. 738
Cadastral zone AO5, Maitama, Abuja; A storey building; two bungalows;
printing press with printing equipment; a fenced empty land measuring
1422.765 square meters, located at km.9 Asaba-Benin Express road, Asaba,
Delta state.Another property is a twin duplex office building, located
at Plot R/151 (No. 30A) Kingsway Road, Old GRA, Enugu State, registered
at Enugu Land Registry.The Commission, through the application, also
sought for the interim forfeiture of two Duplexes with Boys Quarters,
Generator House, Gym and Car Park, located at No. 3D Opolo, Old
Commissioner’s Quarters, Yenegoa, Bayelsa State; Ten plots of land,
located at plot 7, 8, 11, 12, 16, 20, 23, and 24 Phase IV, Block 111,
Core Area, Asaba, Delta state, with C of O No. DSTR1194; A two bedroom
bungalow, located at No. 3 Ogwa Godspower avenue, Oshimili South LGA,
Asaba, Delta State; A two bedroom bungalow, located at No. 11 Chiweta
Street, off Ezenie Avenue, Asaba, Delta State, measuring 527.141 square
meters; A two bedroom bungalow, located at James Odittah Street,
Oshimili LGA, Asaba, Delta State, amongst many others.