N33bn police pension scam: EFCC gets court order to seize suspects’ property

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, cleared the way for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to freeze the illicit property of two of the prime suspects in the looting of the Police Pension fund to the tune of about N33 billion.

The two suspects to lose their property scattered in many locations in Lagos and Abuja, are Atiku Abubakar Kigo and Uzoma Cyril Attang, who are alleged to have used the stolen funds to acquire the assets.

The commission said it got the blessing of Justice Sunday E. Aladetoyinbo  of the  Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, to take possession of the assets of the two suspects via an interim forfeiture order issued by the judge on July 30, 2013.

The order, which is pursuant to section 29 (a) and (b) of the EFCC Establishment Act 2004, is expected to remain in force, pending the hearing and determination of the case of corrupt enrichment filed against them by the anti-graft agency.

Both Mrs. Attang, who was an Assistant Director at the Police Pension Office between 2005 and 2008, and Kigo, who was Director of the Police Pension Office before being made Permanent Secretary, were first arraigned on March 29, 2012, on a 16-count criminal charge bordering on conspiracy and criminal breach of trust before Justice Mohammed Talba of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Gudu, Abuja, alongside seven others.

46 of the attached property situated mostly in Lagos and Abuja belong to Attang, while Kigo, whose properties had earlier been attached, had another of his plot of land at Gudu district attached.


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