Babachir Lawal
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday
arrested the immediate-past Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, Daily Trust gathered.
The former SGF, who was picked up by operatives of the agency, is
expected to be arraigned today following a charge of conspiracy and
fraud levelled against him by the anti-graft agency.
Lawal will be docked before an FCT High Court in Maitama to be presided over by Justice Jude Okeke.
The EFCC had filed a 10-count charge bordering on conspiracy and
fraud against him and Hamidu David Lawal, Suleiman Abubakar and two
companies, Rholavision Engineering Ltd and Josmon Technologies Ltd.
In the charge filed on January 30 by Offem Uket for the commission,
Lawal was alleged to have conspired with Hamidu, a director in
Rholavision and Abubakar, a staff in the same company, to fraudulently
acquire a property and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section
26(1)(c) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000
and punishable under Section 12 of the same Act.
One of the charges accused Hamidu, Abubakar and Rholavision to have “abet
the award of contract to Rholavision Engineering Ltd for the removal of
invasive plant species and simplified irrigation to the tune of
N6.4million by the office of the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (OSGF) through the Presidential Initiative for North East
(PINE).”
Count 9 of the charge accused Hamidu to have “abet the holding
indirectly of a private interest by Engineer Babachir Lawal in the award
of a contract to Josmon Technologies Ltd for the removal of invasive
plant species and simplified irrigation by OSGF through PINE to the tune
of N272.5million.”
Lawal was also accused to have fraudulently acquired a private interest in a contract awarded to Josmon Technologies Ltd.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in October 2017, sacked Lawal
following a report of investigations by a panel headed by Vice-President
Yemi Osinbajo, into allegations of fraud leveled against him.
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