charges against Bankole,EFCC files
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| EFCC files,Bankole |
The [EFCC] today file criminal charges against former Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Bankole, who was arrested Sunday night by the anti-graft agency. Already, the prosecution counsel, Festus Keyamo was putting finishing touches to the voluminous document as at press time.
A Federal Capital Territory Magistrate’s Court, had yesterday granted prayers by the commission to carry out a search warrant on all his known properties.
Consequently, operatives of the anti-graft agency have set out to enforce the order, just as Mr. Dimeji Bankole faces an intensive grilling session by a five-man panel set up to interrogate him over the alleged N10billion loan scam and other sundry allegations.
Check revealed that besides the court order for verification of his properties, the anti-graft commission may have moved to secure a legal stand to keep the former speaker in custody for a period beyond the statutorily permissible limits to ensure a thorough investigation of the allegations against him. The group had called on the EFCC to investigate the N10bn loan controversy, Bankole's role in the N2.3bn car scam, and the mismanagement of the N9bn capital budget of the House for 2008/2009.
Twice, Mr. Dimeji had spurned the summons of the EFCC over the N10bn loan, the last of such invitations was Tuesday.
The immediate past speaker had written to the anti-graft commission, rescheduling the time to appear before the five-man panel of investigators probing the alleged scam in the House.
Bankole alleged that the commission did not invite him properly, just as he claimed that the agency had initiated his trial in the media first before inviting him.
Meanwhile, all the travel documents of the former speaker have been confiscated as investigation continues. He was still being held in custody as at 4.20p.m. Yesterday.
His arrest at his Asokoro guest house followed his failure to honour two summons extended to him to explain his role in the N10bn loan the House secured from the United Bank for Africa.
An earlier planned arrest was last Friday botched, following an intervention from powerful people both in and outside government, which included powerful emirs from the North.
Other charges against Mr. Dimeji Bankole include the N2.3billion car scam, which the commission had since completed its investigation on, last year.
A Federal Capital Territory Magistrate’s Court, had yesterday granted prayers by the commission to carry out a search warrant on all his known properties.
Consequently, operatives of the anti-graft agency have set out to enforce the order, just as Mr. Dimeji Bankole faces an intensive grilling session by a five-man panel set up to interrogate him over the alleged N10billion loan scam and other sundry allegations.
Check revealed that besides the court order for verification of his properties, the anti-graft commission may have moved to secure a legal stand to keep the former speaker in custody for a period beyond the statutorily permissible limits to ensure a thorough investigation of the allegations against him. The group had called on the EFCC to investigate the N10bn loan controversy, Bankole's role in the N2.3bn car scam, and the mismanagement of the N9bn capital budget of the House for 2008/2009.
Twice, Mr. Dimeji had spurned the summons of the EFCC over the N10bn loan, the last of such invitations was Tuesday.
The immediate past speaker had written to the anti-graft commission, rescheduling the time to appear before the five-man panel of investigators probing the alleged scam in the House.
Bankole alleged that the commission did not invite him properly, just as he claimed that the agency had initiated his trial in the media first before inviting him.
Meanwhile, all the travel documents of the former speaker have been confiscated as investigation continues. He was still being held in custody as at 4.20p.m. Yesterday.
His arrest at his Asokoro guest house followed his failure to honour two summons extended to him to explain his role in the N10bn loan the House secured from the United Bank for Africa.
An earlier planned arrest was last Friday botched, following an intervention from powerful people both in and outside government, which included powerful emirs from the North.
Other charges against Mr. Dimeji Bankole include the N2.3billion car scam, which the commission had since completed its investigation on, last year.
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