Former commandant Military Joint Task Force ,Operation Pulo Shield, Major General,Emmanuel Atewe and ex DG NIMASA ,Mr Patrick Akpobolokemi were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over N8.5bn fraud.
Both men were arraign on 11 count charge bordering fraud on friday before Justice Saliu Saidu.
The other defendants charged along are Kime Engozu and Josephine Otuaga.
The anti-graft agency alleged that Akpobolokemi and his alleged accomplices conspired among themselves to defraud NIMASA of N8.5bn using six companies – Jagan Limited; Jagan Trading Company Limited; Jagan Global Services Limited; Al-Nald Limited; Paper Warehouse Limited; Eastpoint Integrated Services Limited and De-Newlink Integrated Services Limited.
The EFCC claimed that the defendants committed the alleged fraud between September 5, 2014 and May 20, 2015.
Akpobolokemi, who had earlier been arraigned before Justice Saidu on December 3, 2015 on a separate charge involving an alleged N3.4bn fraud, was allowed by the judge to continue on the bail of N20m granted him in the earlier case, while the other defendants, Atewe, Engozu and Otuaga were each granted a bail of N100m with two sureties in like sum,and one of the sureties must a relative of the accused person who owns a landed property within Ikoyi, Lekki or Victoria Island area of Lagos.
The other surety, the judge said, must be a civil servant on a level not below that of a Deputy Director in either the state or Federal Civil Service.
Justice Saidu ordered the remand of the accused persons in prison pending the perfection of the conditions attached to the bail.
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