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EFCC Secures Interim Forfeiture of Ex-Council Chairman’s Property in Makurdi

Federal High Court, Makurdi, Benue State, presided over by Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon on Wednesday October 30, 2019, ordered the interim forfeiture of a property belonging to one Jonathan Terlumun Akputu, a former council chairman and promoter of a community bank. The order followed an ex-parte application by the Makurdi Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The Commission’s counsel, G. G. Chia-Yakua, in an application, dated October 24, 2019, had prayed the court for “an interim order, forfeiting to the Federal Government of Nigeria the four bedroom duplex known a…