LAGOS COURT JAILS NOGASA CHAIR, FATUYI PHILLIPS 21 YEARS FOR N43. 5M FRAUD. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 Lagos Court Jails NOGASA Chair, Fatuyi Phillips 21 Years  for N43.5m Fraud    Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, November 18, 2024, convicted and sentenced Fatuyi Yemi Philips, Chairman, Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria, NOGASA, to 21 years imprisonment for N43.5m fraud.   The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on April 5, 2022, arraigned Philips alongside his firm, Oceanview Oil and Gas Limited, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N43, 502,000.00   Count one reads: "Fatuyi Yemi Philips and Oceanview Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited, on or about the 28th day of September, 2016 at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, obtained the aggregate sum of N43, 502,000.00 from Elochukwu Okoye and Elebana Unique Ventures Nigeria Limited on behalf of WAPCIL Nigeria Limited under the false rep

SARAKI WAS TODAY VINDICATED FROM HIS CORRUPTION CHARGES BY THE CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL IN ABUJA.{PHOTO}

Image may contain: 7 people, people standing                   Today,June 14,2017, the Code of Conduct Tribunal sitting in Abujs discharged and acquitted Senator Saraki on a case of false declaration of assets,which started in September 2015.Senator Saraki who took to Social media to share the good news with the photo above further said ''I thank the Almighty Allah,the ultimate Judge and the repository of all powers.He alone has brought about this victory.I am immensely grateful to all my colleagues in the National Assembly for their abiding support.All through my trial,they demonstrated their strong conviction about the choice we all decided to make two years ago.I thank members of my family for their unflinching support.I thnk all friends and supporters back home in Kwara State and across the length and breadth of our country for their prayers and their sacrifies.My gratitude also goes to all members of my legal team for their tireless efforts to ensure the cause of justice is served.After undergoing the crucible of a tortuous trial,my vindication today calls for celebration.It is my belief however that if there should be any celebration at all,it should be a celebration at all,it should be a  celebration of the hopes that this judgement lives us as citizens that despite all the challenges that we face as a country,we are well on our way to building a country where the innocent needs not be afraid.I therefore urge all my supporters to refrain from any unbridled triumphalism.The challenges that our country faces today are enormous and do not allow for wanton celebration.Instead,we should all reflect on the significance of this moment and what it meant for our democracy.On a personal note,I harbour no grudge against anyone,regardless of the role they might have played in the persecution that I had endured in the last two years.I believe that if my trial had in anyway given hope to the common man that no matter the forces arraigned against him,he can still get justice in our courts,then my tribulation had not been in vain.Once again,I than my colleagues in the 8th Senate for standing firm.Regardless of the distraction of my trial,we have achieved more as legislators than the previous Senates.Now that this distraction is over,we can even achieve so much more.We must now proceed from here with greater vigour to deliver on the expectations of Nigerian and show that this 8th Senate can indeed play a central role in improving the quality of lives of our people.Lastly,I thank all the gentlemen of the press for your abiding interest in this case,which I believe had contributed in no small measure in ensuring that truth and reason ultimately prevailed.
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