A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted leave to a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Andrew Yakubu, to travel to the United Kingdom for three weeks to enable him attend to his health.
The prosecuting counsel, Mr. Ben Ikani Yakubu did not kick against the application, but urged the court to release the passport to the defendant’s lawyer, Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN).
In his verdict on the application, the trial judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, adopted the suggestion by Ikani and also ordered the defendant’s surety to depose to an affidavit of liability if the ex-NNPC GMD failed to return to Nigeria to attend his trial.
Yakubu is currently being prosecuted on six counts bordering on fraud and false declaration of assets filed against him on March 10, 2017.
Operatives of the EFCC had recovered the sum of $9.7m and £74,000 stashed in a huge fireproof safe in a house belonging to Yakubu in a slum in Kaduna.
Recall that Yakubu, had recently lost his bid to retrieve the sum of $9.8m and £74,000, forfeited to the Federal Government at a Federal High Court in Kano.
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