The case was consequently adjourned till January 30, 2017.

Adegboruwa is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly dealing in a landed property in defiance of a court order.

The EFCC arraigned him on May 13, 2016 on one count alongside one Jonathan Udeagbala, said to be at large.

The anti-graft agency, in the charge, marked FHC/L/181c/2016, claimed that Adegboruwa and Udeagbala dealt in a property “lying, being and situate at House 105, Nicon Estate, Lekki, Lagos,” without the authorisation of the EFCC.

The prosecution said property was a subject of litigation before Justice C. A. Balogun of the Lagos State High Court.

The EFCC claimed that on August 13, 2013, Adegboruwa and Udeagbala leased the property in defiance of an order of interim injunction made by Justice Balogun on June 18, 2012, concerning the property.
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The defendants were accused of leasing the property to one Shelf Drilling Nigeria Limited in the sum of N61,631,944.65, which the EFCC claimed was credited to Adegboruwa’s account with Zenith Bank.

The prosecutor claimed that Adegboruwa and Udeagbala committed an offence punishable under Section 32(1) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004.

But Adegboruwa pleaded not guilty, following which Justice Oguntoyinbo admitted him to a N10m bail with two sureties in like sum.

The sureties, the judge said, must be landed property owners in Lagos, whose bank account details and office and residential addresses must be verified by the court’s registrar.

Meanwhile, a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere, presided over by Justice Aishat Opesanwo, has reportedly recently vacated the interim order of Justice C.A. Balogun, which the EFCC alleged that Adegboruwa defied.

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Consequently, Justice Abdulfattah Lawal adjourned the matter till February 29 for the hearing of the motion and April 26 and 27 for continuation of trial. It will be recalled that on Monday she told the court she was the sole legally married wife of her late husband having done court, church and traditional marriage, unlike the other wives that only did traditional marriages. Bianca, suing for her two underaged children, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu (claimants), wants the court to declare that her children are entitled to the possession and occupation of the property known as No 29, Oyinkan Abayomi Street, Ikoyi, Lagos, until the harmonisation of the management and administration of the assets of the first defendant, OTL. In their statement of claim, the claimants want the court to declare that the threat of forceful ejection from 29, Oyinkan Abayomi Street by the defendants is illegal. In addition, they urged the court to declare that they are entitled to possess the following properties, No 13 Hawksworth Road, Ikoyi percent(now known as No. 13 Ojora road); No 32A Commercial Avenue, Yaba, Lagos; No 30 Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; No. 30 McPherson Avenue, Ikoyi.

All the above properties were alleged to be under the possession of late Ojukwu, father of the claimants, from when the properties were released from government acquisition till date. The claimant is asking for an order of court restraining the defendants, their agents or privies from interfering with the claimants’ possession and control of the properties. But, in their statement of defence, the 1st -7th defendants averred that the subscribers of the memorandum of association of Ojukwu Transport Limited (1st defendant) at incorporation in 1952 were L.P. Ojukwu and Betram Chukwuemeka Obi, adding that the late Odimegwu Ojukwu and one Professor Joseph Ojukwu (2nd defendant) were later appointed as directors in 1953.

They stated that late Odimegwu Ojukwu thereafter ceased to be a director of the company prior to the Nigerian civil war and was reappointed as a director on December 16, 2005 while the 3rd and 4th defendants were appointed directors in 1954 and 2005 respectively. They added that the claimants’ statement of claim contained tissues of lies and distorted facts, alleging that Bianca who instituted the suit, ‘‘being greedy felt she could hold unto the company’s properties.’’ Besides, they stated that for over 12 years prior to his death, Dim Ojukwu moved to Enugu State and since then had not lived at any of the company’s properties as alleged by the claimant.

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Mrs. Ojukwu had on behalf of her two under-aged children, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu (claimants) dragged Ojukwu Transport Limited (OTL) and seven others before a Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere over an alleged move by the family to eject her sons from their late father’s properties located in Lagos.

She had asked the court to declare that her children are entitled to the possession and occupation of one of the properties known as No 29 Oyinkan Abayomi Street, Ikoyi Lagos until the harmonisation of the management and administration of the assets of the first defendant (OTL).

The defendants in the suit are; Prof Joseph Ojukwu, Engr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, Lotanna Putalora Ojukwu, Dr Patrick Ojukwu, Arc Edward Ojukwu, Lota Akajiora Ojukwu and Mrs Massey Udegbe (doing business under Massey Udegbe & Company).

At the resumed hearing of the matter yesterday, counsel to the defendants Chief George Uwechue (SAN) informed the court of a letter signed by Bianca’s lawyer, Chioma Okoro stating that Bianca won’t be in court because of a meeting with the United Nation’s World Tourism Organisation Secretary General, Dr. Taleb Rafai scheduled for November 9, 2015.

The letter dated October 23 reads in part ‘’the claimants witness, Mrs Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu, who is the Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, is meeting with UN World Tourism Organisation Secretary General, Dr. Taleb Rafai on 9th November, 2015 in Spain. Kindly find attached a copy of the UNWTO’S letter on the proposed meeting’’.

The trial judge, Justice Abdulfattah Lawal said that though the court did not receive a copy of the letter he would give the claimant the benefit of the doubt and adjourned the suit still December 11 for trial.

In the suit, Bianca, and her two children, had in their statement of claim, prayed the court to declare that the threat of forceful ejection from 29 Oyinkan Abayomi Street by the defendants is illegal.

She is also asking the court for a declaration that her children are entitled to possess the following property, namely: No 13 Hawksworth Road, Ikoyi (now known as No. 13 Ojora road); No 32A Commercial Avenue, Yaba, Lagos; No 30 Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; No. 30 McPherson Avenue, Ikoyi.

According to her, the properties were under the possession of late Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu-the father of the claimants from the time the properties were released from government acquisition till date.

The claimants stated that throughout the period their father was struggling to retrieve the properties from the government, the second to seventh defendants “never played any role in the struggle nor contributed financially or otherwise to the realisation of the struggle.”

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