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

ELECTORAL ACT: “THE OFFICE OF THE AGF WILL GIVE EFFECT TO COURT JUDGEMENT IN LINE WITH THE DICTATES OF THE LAW” - MALAMI. (PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.



ELECTORAL ACT: “THE OFFICE OF THE AGF WILL GIVE EFFECT TO COURT JUDGEMENT IN LINE WITH THE DICTATES OF THE LAW” - MALAMI


The Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN has said that his Office will accordingly give effect to the Court judgment in line with the dictates of the law and the spirit of the judgment.

This was in a Statement signed by Dr. Umar Jibril Gwandu, the Special Assistant to the HAGF on media and made available to newsmen on 18th March. 2022.
The HAGF stated that the judgment of the Court will be recognized by the Government printers in printing the Electoral Act.

He disclosed that, “ The Act will be gazetted factoring the effect of the judgment into consideration and deleting the constitutionally offensive provision accordingly”.

He explained that, “the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022 is not part of our law and will be so treated accordingly”.

According to him, “this is in line with the dictates of chapter 7, Part 4, Section 287 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) on enforcement of decisions that makes it a point of duty and obligation on all authorities and persons to have the judgment of the federal High Court, among others, to be enforced”.

Modupe Ogundoro
Deputy Director 
Friday 18th March, 2022.

 

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