$1.2 billion Malabu Scandal: Adoke arraigned, remanded in EFCC custody

He was arraigned on a 42-count charge on Thursday alongside six others before Justice Idris Kutigi of the Gwagwalada Division of the FCT High Court.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how almost half of the $1.1 billion paid by Shell and Eni in a controversial OPL 245 deal brokered by Mr Adoke and some other officials of the Goodluck Jonathan administration ended in accounts controlled by Mr Aliyu. The EFCC alleges that Mr Aliyu distributed the money to some top officials of Shell and Eni as well as some officials of the Jonathan administration.The EFCC also claimed Mr Adoke received N300 million from Mr Aliyu in 2013 as his share of the Malabu windfall.Mr Adoke has denied any wrongdoing and said the actions taken in respect of the transfer of the bloc were based on the instructions of former President Goodluck Jonathan and in the best interest of Nigeria.

The lead counsel to the EFCC, Bala Sanga, thereafter, prayed the court to remand Mr Adoke, Mr Abubakar and Mr Gbinigie in Kuje correctional services facility. “My lord, the Kuje prison is a fashionable name for prison. I appeal to the court to allow Mr Adoke be kept at the EFCC custody for his health sake,” he said.

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