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The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has started a probe into the judgement of a spot tribunal successful London, which ended successful a ungraded for the country.
A root successful the AGF bureau confirmed the probe.
The Tribunal, successful London, dismissed a lawsuit filed by 1 Tali Shani, which challenged the effort by Chief Ozekhome to registry a spot allegedly talented to him by the erstwhile Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, precocious General Jeremiah Useni.
The Tribunal threw retired the lawsuit due to the fact that the applicant apt ne'er existed, and the grounds presented, including individuality documents and a decease certificate, was forged.
The Nigerian Bar Association’s Anti-Corruption Committee said it is funny successful and acceptable to beryllium progressive successful the probe.
Barrister Babafemi Badejo, the committee, and its branch-level members invited Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, the Attorney-General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to the announcement to motorboat a probe into the “messy spot contention successful the United Kingdom” arising from Judge Ewan Paton’s decision.
The NBA anti-graft committee said, “This lawsuit raises respective improprieties that necessitate investigations into the authenticity of the judgement that is wide successful circulation and into the actions of the Legal Practitioners connected the relation of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, who were mentioned successful the said proceedings.
“It is hoped that aft investigations the applicable Legal Practitioners would beryllium promptly referred to the LPDC, Investigations into the processes that resulted successful the alleged procurement of fake NIN, fraudulent presumption of an MTN number, fake ECOWAS passport, each aimed astatine the failed creations of phoney antheral and pistillate persons claiming to beryllium Tali Shani, should pb to the transgression prosecutions of galore civilian servants who connived with lawyers to tamish the sanction of Nigeria.
“Judge Paton concluded that precocious Lt. General Jeremiah Useni had acquired the spot successful a shady mode utilizing a sanction precise akin to the 1 helium utilized successful the 1.9 cardinal pounds lawsuit that was decided astatine the Royal Court of Jersey successful the lawsuit of Attorney-General v. Useni, which was agreed successful 2022.
“Based connected the determination successful the UK, we telephone connected the Attorney-General of the Federation to participate Nigeria’s involvement successful the said spot towards the anticipation of restitution. The NBA Anti-Corruption Committee is alert of galore highly publicised cases that were swept nether the rug successful the past, erstwhile the searchlight of the media had been removed. It is hoped that specified would not beryllium the lawsuit this clip around. Nigeria’s ineligible sector’s credibility and sustainability are astatine stake”.
LEADERSHIP exclusively reported that the Legal Practitioners and Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, has said that it can’t get progressive successful the judgement of a London Property Tribunal, which dismissed the lawsuit of Human Rights Activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Chief Mike Ozekhome’s effort to registry a spot allegedly talented to him by the erstwhile Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, General Jeremiah Useni.
The contention implicit the spot ownership astatine 79 Randall Avenue, London, began erstwhile Chief Ozekhome applied to registry a spot transportation dated August 2021 from “Tali Shani,” who purportedly executed the deed.
However, earlier the process was concluded, the applicant, claiming to beryllium Tali Shani, came guardant and denied authorising the transfer. She told the Tribunal that she was the
The registered proprietor of the spot was unaware of the transfer, asserting that she did not execute it.
Following this controversy, the Land Registry referred Chief Ozekhome’s (the Respondent’s) exertion to registry the spot transportation to the Tribunal connected February 27, 2023.
In his defence, Chief Ozekhome, representing himself aft his ineligible squad withdrew, argued that his spot acquisition was a morganatic transfer.
He contended that Tali Shani ne'er existed and was a phantom individuality created by idiosyncratic not progressive successful the proceedings to fraudulently instrumentality power of the property.
Chief Ozekhome stated that the spot transportation to him was a acquisition successful designation of ineligible services provided to the erstwhile Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, General Jeremiah Useni.
He denied immoderate fiscal transactions related to the spot transfer, asserting it was not for monetary gain.
He called the erstwhile Minister arsenic a witness. In his grounds via video link, the precocious General Useni stated that helium had purchased the spot successful 1993 with his savings, intending it arsenic a location for his family.
He denied immoderate transportation to a “Tali Shani” owning the property, claiming helium archetypal met a antheral by that sanction lone astir 7 oregon 8 years ago, which was unrelat...
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