Court Grants Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia N20m Bail

Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia was on Monday, November 28, summoned under the watchful eye of an Ikeja high court over claimed defilement. 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) summoned Ofili-Ajumogobia close by a senior promoter of Nigeria (SAN), Godwin Obla. 

They were together accused of a two-check charge of debasing the course of equity. 
The blamed, in any case, argued not liable to the charges. 

Obla was accused of an extra two-include of offering delight the aggregate of N5 million to Ofili-Ajumogobia amid her administration as a judge. 

While Ofili-Ajumogobia is being indicted on a 26-check charge of unlawful advancement, taking property by an open officer, debasement by an open officer, phony and giving false data to an authority of the EFCC. 

The counter join organization affirmed that on May 21, 2015, Obla deliberately exchanged N5 million to Ofili-Ajumogobia by means of his Obla and Co United Bank of Africa (UBA) account with number: 1015319084 keeping in mind the end goal to avoid her acting in her official obligations. 

The Commission guaranteed that, on June 5, 2012, the judge, while serving as an equity of the Federal High Court, unlawfully got N18 million through her Access Bank Plc account, which she couldn't give a sensible record of. 

The organization said somewhere around 2012 and 2015 Ajumogobia likewise got a sum of 788,000 dollars from different sources into her Diamond Bank Account with number: 0032091183. 
Ofili-Ajumogobia purportedly got N51.1 million into the Diamond Bank account from different sources which did not mirror her wellspring of pay as a judge. 

The EFCC advise, Rotimi Oyedepo, asked for a prompt trial after the charges were perused. 
"My Lord we thusly apply for a quick, quickened trial,"Oyedepo said. 

In his application safeguard application, insight to Ofili-Ajumogobia, Olawole Akoni (SAN), begged the court to discharge his customer who has been in the Commission's authority. 

Taking after contentions and counter contentions by the insight, Justice Hakeem Oshodi conceded the blamed people safeguard in the whole for N20 million. 

"The respondents are thusly allowed N20 million abandon self acknowledgment and they should relinquish their universal passports,"the judge requested. 

Oshodi noticed that the offenses against the respondents are not kidding, yet bailable, including that given their status in the public arena, they represent no flight chance.