The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture
of N2.2billion recovered from former Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal
Adesola Amosu.
Justice Mojisola Olatoregun made the order based on an ex-parte application by the EFCC.
The judge ruled: “An interim order is made forfeiting to the Federal
Government of Nigeria the total sum of N2,244,500,000 found and
recovered by the commission from the first respondent (Amosu) which sum
is reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activity.”
The judge granted an interim order for the temporary forfeiture of
N190,828,978.15 recovered from a former Nigeria Air Force (NAF) Director
of Finance and Budget Air Commodore Olugbenga Gbadebo.
Justice Olatoregun also ordered temporary forfeiture of N101 million
recovered from Solomon Enterprises, a company linked to Amosu. EFCC said
the sum “is reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activity.”