EFCC to arrest lawmaker Leo Ogor over constituency project
- EFCC is set to arrest House of Representatives minority leader, Leo Ogor
- Ogor is to be arrested over N500 million constituency projects allegedly linked to his companies
- He had earlier been invited for interrogation but reportedly declined to show up
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, March 5, secured a warrant to arrest the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Leo Ogor, over N500 million constituency projects which according to the anti-graft agency were "suspiciously unexecuted".
The Nation reports that the projects were allegedly awarded to companies linked to Ogor according to the anti-graft agency.
The EFCC had earlier frozen N116 million in the accounts of five out of six companies owned by Ogor and being allegedly used to secure contracts from some agencies as constituency projects.
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Cases against Ogor allegedly include over N318 million to two of the companies by the Niger Delta Development Commission; 20 suspected but unexecuted projects in the Universal Basic Education Commission and the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons; and implication in a petition against House leadership by the suspended chairman of the committee on appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on alleged padding of 2016 budget and insertion of bogus constituency projects.
A source in the EFCC said: “We will execute the court order any moment from now because we have given him enough time to respond to our invitations.
“Instead of appearing before our team, Ogor has been given excuses. He has also written the EFCC that he will only be available in December this year. With this development, we may effect his arrest anytime from now. Our operatives will soon be on his trail.
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“We have conducted preliminary investigation but we need Ogor to respond to our findings. Our detectives discovered most of the constituency projects facilitated by Ogor were awarded to six companies in which he has been the sole signatory to their accounts.
“The companies are Laurelton Global Services Limited; Zanny Concern Limited; Racen Integrated Global Nigeria Limited; Simplified Concept Limited; Fergio Ventures Nigeria Limited and Peanard Nigeria Limited.
“Out of the six companies, EFCC confirmed that Ogor is still a serving director in Simplified Concept Limited and Laurelton.
“We have not lifted the freezing order on the N116 million in some accounts traced to him. We obtained the order in May 2017 and he has not been forthcoming.
“The cash has been in the accounts of these companies: Laurelton Global Services Limited (N101, 149, 293.96); Racen Integrated Global Nigeria Limited (N5,088,293.50); Peanard (N2,370,901.44); Zanny Concern Limited (N8,374,173.28) and Simplified Concept Limited (N7, 000).”
Legit.ng previously reported that the EFCC on Monday, March 5, re-arraigned a former governor of Oyo state Adebayo Alao-Akala and two others in an Oyo state high court sitting in Ibadan over alleged N11.5 billion fraud.
The other defendants are a former Oyo state commissioner for local government and chieftaincy matters, Senator Hosea Agboola, and an Ibadan-based businessman, Femi Babalola.
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