A Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, on Tuesday, ruled against jurisdiction claims by Osagie Ize-Iyamu, in the money laundering case instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n
The other defendants are Lucky Imasuen, former Deputy Governor of the state; Dan Orbih, former PDP chairman in Edo; Tony Aziegbemi and Efe Erimuoghae.<\/p>\n
They were all alleged to have, sometime in March 2015 in Benin, taken possession of N700 million without any contract award.<\/p>\n
Their alleged offences is contrary to Section 15(2)(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 (as amended by the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Amendment Act 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3).<\/p>\n
The defendants had pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them<\/p>\n
Charles Edosomwan, counsel to the Ize-Iyamu, challenged the jurisdiction of the court to hear the matter on the grounds that the charges were based on election matter.<\/p>\n
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) argued that the appropriate court to try electoral matter was the Magistrate or High Court.<\/p>\n
Justice M. G. Umar ruled that the matter before the court was money laundering which the Federal High Court has exclusive jurisdiction over.<\/p>\n
The judge berated the defendants for filing the motion which he said was intended to waste the time of the court.<\/p>\n
Justice Umar dismissed their application and adjourned the case until May 18, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, on Tuesday, ruled against jurisdiction claims by Osagie Ize-Iyamu, in the money laundering case instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The other defendants are Lucky Imasuen, former Deputy Governor of the state; Dan Orbih, former PDP chairman in Edo; Tony Aziegbemi and Efe Erimuoghae. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,530,533,15637],"class_list":["post-330779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-edo","tag-godwin-obaseki","tag-ize-iyamu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}