Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Subsidy Scam: Witness Tells Court How Company Supplied 6.7m Litres and Claimed 19m Litres from FG

A prosecution witness, Chidi Nweke told an FCT High Court, sitting in Apo, Abuja how Adegbite Adetoye and Ponle Abiodun, two directors of Origin Oil and Gas Limited, lied and defrauded the Federal government to the tune of over N735 million in subsidy scam. At the resumed hearing of the case today, Tuesday, April 16, 2019 before Justice Silvanus Oriji, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Steve Odiase, said the accused lied over the quantity of petrol (Premium Motor Spirit, PMS) they supplied to the Federal Government i…