New revelations have showed that the new Justice Minister and Attorney General, Bello Adoke, has turned into a highly corrupt wheeler dealer whose record could make that of very slimy, and grossly corrupt predecessor, Mike Aondoakaa, a child’s play.
Pointblanknews.com investigations reveal that in barely six months in office Adoke has received millions of dollars from sundry Politically Exposed Persons, heads of agencies, and private individuals, indicted for corruption with ex Bauch Governor, Adamu Muazu being his latest client.
According to highly placed sources at the Justice ministry, the minister had curiously dropped charges against no less than 16 persons facing corruption charges in various courts, in six months. The minister, who has the statutory powers to prosecute, sends agents to those indicted and an agreement is reached.
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They are expected to part with a fraction of what they allegedly stole and the charges go up in smoke. Pointblanknews.com learnt that Muazu was quick to agree to the deal of parting with $10 Million( N1.5 Billion) which is a fraction of the N19 Billion of what he allegedly stole from the Bauchi people.
They include the Vaswani Brothers ( Sunil, Hanesh, and Malesh), indicted over a N40 Billion fraud against Globe Motors, Kenny Matins who, in concert with some cronies stole over N500 Million Police Equipment Fund, Ex chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), who allegedly defrauded the commission of N1.5 Billion, Ransome Owan, and former Customs Comptroller General, Ahmed Bello, who has a N2.5 Billion import duty scam hanging over his head.
According to our source, Owan, Martins, Bello, and the Vaswani Brothers paid between N150 Million and N2 Billion before an agreement was reached to drop charges for either insufficient evidence or wrongful prosecution by former Justice Minister , Aondoakaa. In the case of Owan, Adoke apologised and ask him and other indicted commissioners to withdraw their suit of wrongful sack.
The Justic Ministry source said “ it was also clear that Owan and others had settled the boss (Adoke) before all these drama of apologies and dropping of charges. The case against these guys was air tight, all of a sudden he started telling us, Aondoakaa erred and that the sack and prosecution were wrong”
Pointblanknews.com gathered that Adoke is currently at daggers drawn with the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), over his latest client, Muazu who has been let off the hook by Adoke after the Justice Minister received the whooping $10 Millon bribe.
Highly competent sources also hinted that Adoke got $1 Million from Dele Oye who was implicated in the Cecilia Ibru saga. He was detained briefly by the EFCC but the Justice left him off.
The commission is insisting Muazu must honor its invitation. It sent a fresh letter asking him to show up on Thursday, but Adoke is adamant maintaining that Muazu has no case to answer.
Few days ago Adoke took a shot at the EFCC, condemning the commissions prescription that all politically exposed persons indicted for fraud should be barred from running for any office. According to Adoke, “all agencies of government must moderate their public utterances likely to cause apprehension in the minds of the public that this administration wants to exclude some political opponents” He said further that the statement credited to the commisions’s boss is capable of embarrassing the government, and unduly heat up the polity.
Muazu who has been on the most wanted list of the EFCC, fled Nigeria under the guise of attending his daughter’s graduation ceremony in London. Muazu was invited by the commission in June 24, 2008, to explain his role in the disappearance of N19 Billion from Bauchi State coffers while he was Governor.
