Ahmed was arraigned on Friday before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court in Ilorin by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
After being first invited for questioning on Monday, the immediate former governor of Kwara State has been under the EFCC’s custody.
One of the accusations levied against the former governor is that, between 2015 and 2019, he repeatedly chartered private jets through Travel Messengers Limited for domestic travel, using N1,610,730,500.00 intended for the government of Kwara State’s operating expenses and security.
The governor is additionally accused of misappropriating N411 million intended for the state’s security budget from January to December of 2018.
A 10-count charge “also bordering on mismanagement of public funds while he served under Ahmed’s administration as commissioner for finance” has been brought against former Kwara state commissioner of finance, Ademola Banu. This information was provided in a statement by EFCC Director of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale. Banu was added as a second defendant.
When the case was called, the statement claims that Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, the lead attorney for the EFCC, told the judge that Banu had jumped the administrative bail that the EFCC had granted him and that attempts to apprehend him had failed.
He requested that the court issue a summons against his surety, Salami Bashiru Ola, and/or an arrest warrant for the second defendant, Banu, based on Section 83 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.
The defense team, led by Kehinde Eleja, SAN, claimed that their presence was on behalf of the first defendant, so they offered no arguments in support of the second defendant. Justice Anyadike issued a bench warrant for Banu in a brief ruling.
Following the hearing of the arguments and counterarguments from both attorneys, Justice Anyadike granted the first defendant N50 million in bail, along with two sureties in an equivalent amount.
The court’s registrar will need to receive the sureties’ passports, according to the judge. A portion of the EFCC state stated, “One of the sureties must have landed property in Ilorin with the property’s title documents deposited with the Registrar of the Federal High Court.”
The case was then postponed until April 29 and 30, 2024, when the trial was scheduled to begin. Justice Anyadike then ordered the defendant to be remanded in EFCC custody until his bail conditions were fulfilled.
Abdulfatah Ahmed, the troubled former governor of Kwara State, entered a not guilty plea to 12 counts pertaining to alleged mismanagement of N10 billion in public funds.
As a result, a Federal High Court in Ilorin, Kwara State, imposed a N50 million bail requirement on Ahmed.
Ahmed was arraigned on Friday before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court in Ilorin by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
After being first invited for questioning on Monday, the immediate former governor of Kwara State has been under the EFCC’s custody.
One of the accusations levied against the former governor is that, between 2015 and 2019, he repeatedly chartered private jets through Travel Messengers Limited for domestic travel, using N1,610,730,500.00 intended for the government of Kwara State’s operating expenses and security.
The governor is additionally accused of misappropriating N411 million intended for the state’s security budget from January to December of 2018.A 10-count charge “also bordering on mismanagement of public funds while he served under Ahmed’s administration as commissioner for finance” has been brought against former Kwara state commissioner of finance, Ademola Banu.
This information was provided in a statement by EFCC Director of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale. Banu was added as a second defendant.
When the case was called, the statement claims that Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, the lead attorney for the EFCC, told the judge that Banu had jumped the administrative bail that the EFCC had granted him and that attempts to apprehend him had failed.
He requested that the court issue a summons against his surety, Salami Bashiru Ola, and/or an arrest warrant for the second defendant, Banu, based on Section 83 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.
The defense team, led by Kehinde Eleja, SAN, claimed that their presence was on behalf of the first defendant, so they offered no arguments in support of the second defendant. Justice Anyadike issued a bench warrant for Banu in a brief ruling.
Following the hearing of the arguments and counterarguments from both attorneys, Justice Anyadike granted the first defendant N50 million in bail, along with two sureties in an equivalent amount.
The court’s registrar will need to receive the sureties’ passports, according to the judge. A portion of the EFCC state stated, “One of the sureties must have landed property in Ilorin with the property’s title documents deposited with the Registrar of the Federal High Court.
“The case was then postponed until April 29 and 30, 2024, when the trial was scheduled to begin. Justice Anyadike then ordered the defendant to be remanded in EFCC custody until his bail conditions were fulfilled.