{"id":309909,"date":"2024-02-12T16:58:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=309909"},"modified":"2024-02-12T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:58:32","slug":"alleged-6bn-fraud-youve-no-power-to-try-me-ex-minister-agunloye-tells-efcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/02\/12\/alleged-6bn-fraud-youve-no-power-to-try-me-ex-minister-agunloye-tells-efcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged $6bn Fraud: You\u2019ve no power to try me, ex-Minister, Agunloye tells EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Agunloye was equally alleged to have corruptly received kickback to the tune of N3.6 million from the company to which he awarded the contract<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Apo on Monday, fixed February 26 to hear a motion the former Minister of Power and Steel, Mr. Olu Agunloye, who was accused of complicity in a $6 billion contract fraud, filed to challenge the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), to prosecute him.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/02\/08\/efcc-arrests-three-suspects-for-currency-racketeering-in-kaduna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EFCC<\/a> alleged that Agunloye, who served as a Minister between 1999 and 2003, under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, illegally awarded a contract for the construction of a 3,960 MW Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Station on a Build, Operate, and Transfer Basis.<\/p>\n<p>The agency told the court that the contract, which was awarded to Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited, was done without any budgetary provision, approval, or cash backing.<\/p>\n<p>Agunloye was equally alleged to have corruptly received kickback to the tune of N3.6 million from the company to which he awarded the contract.<\/p>\n<p>However, the defendant, who had also served as a Minister of State for Defence, pleaded not guilty to the seven-count charge against him.<\/p>\n<p>At the resumed proceedings in the matter on Monday, the 76-year-old defendant, via a motion marked: M\/3736\/2024, queried the powers of the EFCC to try him over the alleged offences.<\/p>\n<p>He contended that the agency was bereft of both the investigative and prosecutorial powers under sections 6, 7, and 46 of the EFCC Act, 2004, to initiate the case against him.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that the offences in the charge bordered on his activities as a public officer, his alleged disobedience to presidential directives, as well as the alleged forgery of a letter dated May 22, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese allegations do not constitute financial crimes, which can be lawfully investigated and prosecuted by the EFCC, pursuant to its powers under Sections 6, 7, and 46 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act and in consonance with the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Nwobike v. 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