Senators Who Have Pending Allegations To Answer (PART 3)

In the first and second part of this article, updates on criminal allegations against six Senators of the 9th Assembly were given. This part is a final compilation of updates on allegations and pending court cases involving sitting Senators.

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Senator Ifeanyi Ubah

He is the Senator representing Anambra South senatorial district under the Young Progressives Party (YPP). He is  also the Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil and Gas Ltd.

Ubah, was to be arraigned before Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos on December 4, 2019. The senator and his company, Capital Oil and Gas Limited, are facing a four counts of fraud and misrepresentation of facts.

At the proposed hearings, lawyer to the federal government, informed the court of pending four charges against the defendants and urged the court to accept the same for the purposes of a plea.

Ubah’s lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba SAN, however, informed the court that his client had not been served with the charge.

According to reports, Agbakoba also told the court that a mediation move was ongoing to resolve the case out of court since.

The prosecuting counsel, told the court that if the defendant was trying to avoid court proceedings, he would not hesitate to ask for a warrant or arrest to enable the prosecution produce him in court.

The trial judge, ruling on the issue raised, stated that in as much as the prosecution had failed to produce the defendant in court, the case stood adjourned.

The matter was adjourned until February 13, 2020.

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Senator Sam Egwu

He is a former governor, now representing Ebonyi North Senatorial District under the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

According to reports, the first of the allegations against Egwu was a false declaration of assets. In his assets declaration form, dated July 21, 1999, Egwu claimed that he had three buildings located in Amoffia Ngbo, Ezzamgbo and Abakaliki, all valued at N15 million. A group known as Coalition for Good Governance in Ebonyi State in 2007, wrote to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, copying EFCC, accusing Egwu of stealing billions of funds belonging to the state.

The group challenged him, claiming that it was a lie fabricated to cover up the intended and pre-determined fraudulent acquisition of property while in office. It was alleged that Egwu, both as a lecturer at the then Enugu State University of Technology and later as Commissioner for Education, had no personal house at Abakaliki, the state capital nor does he have any in his home town, Amoffia.

They insisted that the university accommodated him at its quarters, and he maintained the address even as Governor when he sought a loan of N71.5 million from the erstwhile Allstates Trust Bank on May 7, 2003.

While the EFCC arrested and detained the former Accountant General of the state, the former governor under whose government the Accountant General served has remained untouched.