CACOL faults court on discharge, acquittal of SEC DG 

“Also, we proceeded in the petition (a copy of which was sent to the Speaker, National Assembly and other Members of the House, for their intervention).

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Debo identified some companies he alleged have verifiable links to Gwarzo as follows: –

(i)                  Outbound Investment Ltd, RC NOS. 807317

(ii)                Medusa Investment Ltd., RC NOS. 32689

(iii)               Northwind Environmental Services REG NOS. BN389176

(iv)              Micro-Technologies LTD RC NOS. 173805

(v)                Tida International Ltd RC NOS. 26414

(vi)              Outlook Communications

(vii)             Acromac Nig Ltd RC NOS. 10687864

(viii)           Balfort International Investment Ltd RC NOS. 109153

(ix)              Interactive Worldwide  Nig Ltd RC NOS. 77944

CACOL, thereafter, declared:“ Contingent upon all these information, coupled with documented evidences that were forwarded, we urge the anti-corruption agencies and the Arm of the National Assembly, to take up our petition and institute an investigation towards bringing culprit(s) to book as we alleged. It was after all due diligence had been effected that the ICPC, after suspension of Mr. Gwarzo, arraigned him on those offences for which he stood trial with his commissioner in charge.

“Unfortunately, we were compelled to raise an alert after noticeable shoddy manner in which process to set Dr Gwarzo free of alleged corruption charges and abuse of office was playing out at the trial due to the lack of proper presentation of the case by the ICPC investigator, Taiwo Olorunyomi. This press conference was held on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, in which, inter alia, we queried, “Why would an experienced investigator like Taiwo Olorunyomi come before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf and begin to express doubt about the body of evidence the agency he works for has put before the presiding Judge? ‘’We don’t have any vested interest in this case other than the desire to rid the country of corruption and abuse of power by officials of government. ‘’We urge the newly appointed chairman of ICPC, Professor Bolaji Owasonoye to immediately order a probe into this matter and ensure nothing is swept under the carpet. We also call on the EFCC, Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption (PACAC) and Special Fraud Unit SFU to beam their searchlight on what is going on with the process.

“Ironically, what we feared most has happened by this final judicial outcome. We are however, herein calling on the Chairman of ICPC, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, whom we are convinced is a man of much integrity, to appeal this unacceptable judgment and institute a fact-finding team to investigate and ascertain what must have led to this obvious, shoddy prosecution that traded this high profile corruption case away…”