By AYO ESAN, ABUJA
The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property has sealed off suspicious assets and property belonging to Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, located in Warri, Asaba in Delta State, and Lagos State.
The Chairman of the panel, Okoi Obono Obla, who disclosed this on Sunday, said that the presidential panel carried out the action on the premise of last week’s ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, which ordered an interim forfeiture of property belonging to Nwaoboshi, who currently represents Delta North Senatorial District in the Senate.
Ruling in suit no FHC/ABJ/CS/1127/18 filed by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property on behalf of the Federal Government, Justice Taiwo O. Taiwo, also placed a post-no-debit order on 22 bank accounts linked to Nwaoboshi.
The embattled lawmaker was recently referred to the Office of the Department of Public Prosecution, Federal Ministry of Justice by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel led by Chief Okoi Obono-Obla for allegedly making false assets declaration in his Form CCB1 submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau.
According to the ruling, 14 properties and 22 bank accounts linked to the senator are to be temporarily forfeited to the Federal Government.
Aside from sealing off the properties, the panel also wrote to several banks, including Zenith International Bank Plc ; United Bank of Africa ; Sterling Bank Plc and Access Bank Plc to block Senator Nwaoboshi from operating multiple accounts maintained by him in these banks pursuant to the Order of the Interim forfeiture given by the court.
Some of the property sealed by the presidential panel include Summing Electrical Company located at Asagba, along Asaba Airport Road, Asaba, Delta State; PON filling station along Asaba Airport Road, Asaba, Delta State; and a multi-billion naira estate under construction along Maryam Babangida Road, Asaba, Delta State.
Others are: Cartage Cinema located at Okpana Road, beside Rain Oil Petrol Station, Asaba, Delta State; Newbridge filling Station along Airport Road, Warri, Delta State and a house at number 8, Monu Olanrewaju Crescent, GRA, Asaba, Delta State.
Senator Nwaoboshi’s property sealed in Lagos include Guinea House, 27, Marina Road, Apapa; a multi-billion naira building located at 41, Burma Road, Apapa, Lagos.
In Abuja, house number 25, 6932 Road, Adban Estate, Gwarimpa and Plot 3011B, Kuranakh Close, Maitama, Abuja were also sealed. A number of plots of land suspected to belong to the lawmaker were also sealed by the panel.
