N5.7bn Contract: EFCC To Go After Sujimoto Assets To Recover Enugu Funds

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it has secured a tribunal bid against the Chief Executive Officer of Sujimoto Luxury Construction Limited, Sijibomi Ogundele.

Ogundele is being probed by the anti-graft bureau implicit nonaccomplishment to present 22 Smart Green School projects successful Enugu State.

His institution was paid implicit N5.7bn by the authorities authorities for the project.

Following the remand order, Ogundele would present person to explaine however helium spent the N5.7billion without executing the contract.

Also, the EFCC mightiness person to question a caller tribunal bid to prehend the funds successful Ogundele’s idiosyncratic and company’s accounts, which had earlier been frozen.

The bid for his remand was obtained from a !Magistrate Court to detain him until the anti-graft bureau was capable to implicit investigation.

Before now, some the idiosyncratic accounts of Ogundele and Sujimoto Luxury Construction Limited had earlier been frozen successful summation to seizing his planetary passport.

The EFCC had declared Ogundele wanted 2 weeks agone for alleged wealth laundering.

But, helium came retired connected societal media to blasted the Enugu State Government for the EFCC action, saying the declaration was underpriced, besides citing ostentation arsenic reasons for the abandonment.

Enugu State responded moments later, alleging that the fishy disappeared aft collecting N5.7 cardinal arsenic 50 per cent mobilization interest to present 22 Smart Green Schools successful six months, being February 2025.

The authorities authorities said, “The Enugu State Government paid the sum of N5,762,565,475.25, representing 50 per cent of the declaration sum, successful bid to fast-track the projects astatine each the sites.

“Rather than play to the rules of the contract, Mr. Ogundele resorted to shoddy jobs and the usage of inexperienced workers and quack engineers.

“None of his sites small jobs done connected the sites met the structural integrity of the projects arsenic specified successful the structural drawing.

“Worse still, helium vanished into bladed aerial with the money. All efforts made by the authorities to get him to a roundtable to sermon the prime and advancement of enactment proved abortive.

“He arsenic refused to be the periodic projects briefing organised by the authorities authorities for each contractors oregon instrumentality galore calls and messages enactment crossed to him.

“In fact, helium practically abandoned the sites, leaving the Enugu State Government with nary different prime but to petition the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to retrieve the funds paid to him.

“A associated squad of officers of the Enugu State Ministry of Works and Infrastructure and the EFCC visited the 22 sites to measure the advancement of enactment connected May 8 and 9, 2025, wherever it was intelligibly established that determination had been minimal to nary important enactment done astatine the said sites 1 twelvemonth aft the declaration award.

“In immoderate cases, helium fraudulently did not bash excavation for each the blocks successful site.

“It is besides connected grounds that helium has not shown up astatine the sites oregon made himself disposable to either the authorities authorities oregon the instrumentality enforcement agencies

“The authorities has since retaken and handed implicit the sites to caller firms, which person nary prime but to commencement the operation afresh.

“It is arsenic noteworthy that determination were different firms awarded aggregate fig of Smart Green School projects and they are delivering prime jobs connected target.”

The Enugu State Government’s connection was accompanied with pictures of the task sites arsenic abandoned by Sujimoto, which were taken by the associated squad of officials of the authorities authorities and operatives of the EFCC during the May 8 and 9 tract visits, showing that the task sites were mostly astatine the levels of instauration and DPC, with a fewer astatine the signifier of artifact work.