NWABOSHI REACTS............FG secures arrest warrant against Senator Nwaoboshi

The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property has secured a warrant of arrest against embattled Delta senator, Peter Nwaoboshi, for alleged conspiracy, diversion of public funds and official corruption.

A Wuse Zone 2 Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, issued the warrant dated Sept.18 and signed by Akanni Olaide, the Chief District Judge II, FCT.
Spokesperson of the panel, Lucie-Ann Laha, made a copy of the warrant available to the media on Thursday.

The panel is accusing Nwaoboshi of fraudulent acquisition of property and embezzlement of contract sum to the tune of N3.48 billion, among others.
The serving PDP senator, representing Delta North, is alleged to have illegally acquired houses, an estate and a company all worth billions of naira, in Asaba, the Delta capital.
According to the panel, he also used stolen public funds to acquire a house in Apapa, Lagos, and another property in London that had yet to be identified.

Nwaoboshi is said to have committed the alleged offences while serving as a commissioner in Delta.
The panel disclosed that it launched investigation into the case following a tip-off by a whistle-blower.
It said the decision to seek the arrest warrant followed the “refusal” of the lawmaker and “the other owners” of the identified property to honour its invitation. he reacts

Peter Nwaoboshi, the senator representing Delta North in the Senate has said that he was never invited before any panel.

He made the claim while reacting to federal government’s announcement that it had secured a warrant of arrest against him for alleged conspiracy, diversion of public funds and official corruption.
A Wuse Zone 2 Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, issued the warrant dated September 18 and signed by Akanni Olaide, the Chief District Judge II, FCT.

Spokesperson of the panel, Lucie-Ann Laha, made a copy of the warrant available to the media on Thursday.
However, Nwaoboshi’s lawyer, Mr Augustine Mowah, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Asaba that there was no letter inviting him to any panel.
Mowah said: “I state categorically that Nwaoboshi was never served any invitation to appear before any panel anywhere in Nigeria.

“Never was any such invitation served him. The publication on the issue that has been going round as usual is fake news.
“This is what I call junk news going round everywhere. As at today, no letter has been served on the Senator”.
Mowah said that Nwaoboshi is a lawyer and a law-abiding citizen, adding that the basis of that purported letter circulating that he became aware of was wrong.
He challenged the publishers of such news to come forward with their evidence of any letter inviting him.
The legal practitioner added that he understood that the matter was in relation with a company of which the Senator was never a member or shareholder.