N805m Fraud: EFCC arrests convicted senator who avoided jail for seven months

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The arrest of the senator came less than two weeks after the Supreme Court rejected his post-conviction bail application which he filed from his hiding.

has finally arrested a convicted senator who has been on the run since he was jailed for seven years for corruption over seven months ago.

After over seven months of hiding, Mr Nwaoboshi was arrested by EFCC operatives at a hospital in Lagos on Monday, according to a statement released on Wednesday by the anti-graft agency. “It is a very sad development in our democracy that a lawmaker has refused to respect the law of the land.Mr Abubakar warned that “…nobody is above the law. The government and the governed are subject to the rule of law. And, we must ensure that there is respect for the rule of law.“They make the laws, they must respect the laws. And, if they do not respect the laws, it means that they have failed in discharging their mandate.

The Court of Appeal had in a judgement it delivered on July 1, 2022, sentenced him to prison after it convicted him on a two-count charge of money laundering and also ordered the winding up of his two companies, Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd, in line with the provision of Section 22 of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2021, and their properties forfeited to the Federal Government.

Justice Tijani Abubakar, in his contribution, upbraided the Appellant for filing the bail application while on the run.

 

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