A top military officer’s 20 properties valued at over N3 billion and seven million have been forfeited to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday.
Aflac Plastics, Marhaba Events Place, and Atlasfield Gas Plant Limited were some of the companies that controlled the property through proxies, including late General Aminu Maude.
The order was granted by Justice N. E. Maha of the Federal High Court in Abuja, while ruling on a request by counsel to the EFCC, by Musa Isah and Cosmos Ugwu.
Following an ex parte application by the Commission that alleged the assets were the proceeds of unlawful activities, the Court had ordered the interim forfeiture of the properties in May, 2020.
In light of the application under Section 17 of the Advance Fee fraud and other fraud related offenses Act, 2006, in particular sub-sections 1 and 3, the court granted the commission’s prayers for an interim forfeiture and ordered the publication of notices to inform anyone with an interest in the properties to show cause why the properties shouldn’t be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
As a result of no contest, the court on Monday ordered that the properties be forfeited.
These forfeited properties are distributed among the states of Kano, Katsina, Calabar (Cross River State) and Kaduna.
The list includes petrol stations, event centers, plazas, block industries, trucks factories, polythene factories, and table water factories.
It also consists of undeveloped plots of land located at Rake, adjacent to Dara Orthopedic Hospital, Kano at an estimated value of N300 million, as well as 117 hectares of land located at Adiabo, Oduapani L,G covered by Certificate of Occupancy No. OD/23/2011 dated 21/2/ 2011 in Calabar, Cross River State, estimated at N386 million, truck assembly at Ring Road, adjacent to AA Affa Filling Station, Kano, valued at N206 million and Marhaba Event Centre, Guda Abdulahi Road Farm Centre, Kano worth N250 million.
