After several days of
extended interrogations, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will
today arraign the former Benue State Governor, Mr. Gabriel Suswam, for money
laundering and embezzlement.
The arraignment of Suswam,
who ruled Benue State from 2007 to 2015, follows the filing of a nine-count
charge largely bordering on money laundering to the tune of N3.1 billion
against him at the Federal High Court Abuja on October 2.
It will be recalled that in a
bid to set the stage for the prosecution of Suswam, the commission grilled him
and his former finance commissioner, Mr. Omadachi Oklobia, for many days last
month but released them on administrative bail.
“The anti-graft agency had on
Monday, October 2, 2015 filed a nine-count charge bordering on money laundering
to the tune of N3.1 billion at a Federal High Court, Abuja.”
While Suswam is facing the
trial by the EFCC, he had successfully stopped his probe by the state governor,
Samuel Ortom, by securing the order of the Benue State High Court to restrain
the commission of enquiry raised by the governor from investigating his tenure.
It is not clear if Suswam
will also get the same court to restrain the EFCC from proceeding with his
trial.
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