The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, discharged and acquitted a former Head of Service of the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, of N190 million pension fraud charges.
EFCC alleged that the defendants, between 2010 and 2011, used the firms and diverted billions of naira in public funds through procurement projects purportedly aimed at reforming the federal civil service pension. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mr Oronsaye was arraigned alongside Osarenkhoe Afe , Managing Director of Fedrick Hamilton Global Services Limited , on a 49-count charge.
The EFCC alleged that the defendants had, between 2010 and 2011, used the firms to divert public funds through procurement fraud. “He also told this Court that as at the time of this proceeding, no such petition was shown to him for him to respond,” Mr Ekwo said. “The prosecution needed to controvert this evidence but failed to do so. Failure to controvert the evidence of DW1 in this respect makes the evidence credible, and this Court will rely on it in taking a final decision,” he said.
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