The Federal Government, through the Code of Conduct Bureau, will arraign a former Minister of Niger Delta, Mr. Godsday Orubebe, on four counts of false assets declaration and bribery on November 9.
Orubebe, who is to be arraigned
before the Justice Danladi Umar-led Code of Conduct Tribunal, was accused of
failure to declare his assets at Plot 2722 Kyamu and Plot 2059 in Asokoro
District both in Abuja on assumption of office as minister on September 26,
2007.
In count three, he was also accused of
accepting N50m bribe from one Pastor Jonathan Alota, on September 19, 2012, for
award of contract in favour of his (Alota’s) company, Chemtronics Nigeria
Limited.
In count four, he
allegedly accepted additional N20m bribe from Alota in 2013 for the award of a
contract to Chemtronics Nigeria Limited for the construction of skill
acquisition centre at Edo State for the sum of N1.8bn.
-Punch
No comments:
Post a Comment