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A Civil Society Organization, CSO, under the aegis of Centre for Reform and Public Advocacy has dragged the National Drugs and Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General to the Federation, Abubakar Malami to immediately start prosecution of APC’s presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu over alleged money laundering and drug trafficking.
In suit number FHC/Abj/CS/2237/22 dated December 2, 2022, sighted by TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) the group wants the court based on the certified judgment of a US Court start prosecution of the presidential candidate of the ruling party on money laundering and drug trafficking.
TNG recalls that the latest certified copies of the court case, obtained on August 10, showed Mr Tinubu and two others named K.O. Tinubu and Alhaji Mogati were involved in banking proceeds of illicit drugs and money laundering with Heritage Bank and Citibank. It was not immediately clear whether or not ‘Alhaji Mogati’ was a misspelling of Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, Mr Tinubu’s foster mother, who passed on in 2013.
The U.S. government had in July 1993 sought forfeiture of proceeds of narcotics Mr Tinubu was accused of laundering. The matter was resolved in a compromise between the Tinubus and the U.S. authorities, with the Tinubus being asked to keep the money in the Heritage Bank account while the $460,000 in the Citibank account was forfeited.
In the originating summons, the plaintiff demanded for a declaration that the first and second defendants are bound by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by Section 4 of the Act and establishing NDLEA and Section 3 of the Justice Criminal Administration Act, 2015 to prosecute the 3rd Defendant under Section 18 of the Money Laundering Act, 2022 in that on October 4, 1993 the United States District court Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division in case number 93C4483, United States of America -Plaintiff V funds in account 263226700 held by First Heritage Bank in the name of Bola Tinubu.
The plaintiff to this end asked the court to determine whether the 1st and 2nd Defendants are, on the basis of the allegation in the complaint lodged by the Plaintiff in the letters attached to this process as exhibits
“A” and “B”, bound by the 1999 Constitution, Section 4 of The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act and Section 3 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 to prosecute Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the 3rd Defendant .
Also whether Section 4 in the Act establishing the NDLEA Act is mandated to prosecute the the 3rd defendants among others as expressly stated in the originating summons.