IN THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT OF NIGERIA IN THE ABUJA JUDICIAL DIVISION HOLDEN AT ABUJA, CHARGE NO: FHC/ABJ/CR/380/ 2015, BETWEEN FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND (1.) DR. RAYMOND DOKPESI (2.) DAAR INVESTMENT AND HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED
THE CHARGES
COUNT 1
That you DR. RAYMOND DOKPESI and DAAR INVESTMENT AND HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED between October 2014 and 19th March, 2015 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, conducted procurement fraud by means of fraudulent and corrupt act, to wit: receipt of payment into the account of Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited with First Bank of Nigeria Plc of public funds in the sum of N2,120,000,000 (Two Billion, One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira) from the account of the office of National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria for the funding of media activities for the 2015 presidential election campaign for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 58 (4)(b) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 and punishable under Section 58 (6) & (7) of the same Act.
COUNT 2
That you DR. RAYMOND DOKPESI and DAAR INVESTMENT AND HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED between October 2014 and 19th March, 2015 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court entered into a purported contract on presidential media initiative and received payment in the sum of N2,120,000,000 (Two Billion, One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira) into the account of Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited with First Bank of Nigeria Plc from the account of the office of National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria on account of the purported contract without a “Certificate of No Objection to Contract Award” duly issued by Public Procurement Bureau and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 16 (1) (b), (4) & (5) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 and punishable under Section 58 (6) of the same Act.
COUNT 3
That you DR. RAYMOND DOKPESI and DAAR INVESTMENT AND HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED between October 2014 and 19th March, 2015 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court. entered into a purported contract on presidential media initiative and received payment in the sum of N2,120,000,000 (Two Billion, One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira) into the account of Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited with First Bank of Nigeria Plc from the account of the office of National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria on account of the purported contract without any open competitive bidding for the said contract and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 16 (1)(c) & (d) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 and punishable under Section 58 (6) of the same Act.
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COUNT 4
That you DR. RAYMOND DOKPESI and DAAR INVESTMENT AND HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED between October 2014 and 19th March, 2015 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court submitted a purported proposal for the contract on presidential media initiative and received payment in the sum of N2,120,000,000 (Two Billion, One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira) into the account of Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited with First Bank of Nigeria Plc from the account of the office of National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria on account of the purported cont1act without a written and comprehensive request to you by the Federal Government of Nigeria and you thereby committed an offence contrary to sections 45 (3) and 46 of the Public Procurement Act. 2007 and punishable under Section 58 (6) of the same Act.
COUNT 5
That you DR. RAYMOND DOKPESI and DAAR INVESTMENT AND HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED between 22nd January, 2015 and 19th March, 2015 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, took control of the sum of N2,120,000, 000 (Two Billion, One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira) paid into the account of Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited with First Bank of Nigeria Plc from the account of the office of National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria which sum you reasonably ought to have known was a proceed of an unlawful act to wit: fund obtained from corruption and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and punishable under Section 15 (3) & (4) of the same Act.
COUNT 6
That you DR. RAYMOND DOKPESI and DAAR INVESTMENT AND HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED between 22nd January, 2015 and 19th March, 2015 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, knew that an aggregate sum of N2,120,000,000 (Two Billion, One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira) directly represented the proceeds of criminal conducts of COL. MOHAMMED SAMBO DASUKI (RTD.) and SHUAIBU SALISU who were National Security Adviser and the Director of Finance, Office of the National Security Adviser respectively (to wit: criminal breach of trust in respect of the said amount) used the said property and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 17 (b) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004.
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4 comments
We will keep watching d on going drama(corruption war) as they(PMB/APC) try harder to deceive Nigerians because in those counts charge, Ive not seen anything incriminating. D Minister for transport as a State Gov. bought an aeroplane in his name with Rivers money n no body is talkng.
Where is Sammie’s evidence that Amaechi bought a plane in his own name. Enemies of progress and paid agents of the PDP. We know that corrupt people and their agents like Sammie will fight back but Nigerian people will win the war IJMN.
That is a state problem. This is federal.
Sammie, I think this position of yours is at best illiterate and exposes the need for you to get some understanding of how a federal system works.
The President has no power anywhere under our laws to poke-nose into the affairs of any state authoritatively and he has made that clear many times but people like you will choose to be deaf to wisdom.
The Governor/Government of Rivers State it is who has powers to take action on whatever you concoct that Rotimi Amaechi did and to the best of my knowledge, Nyesom Wike has done that and failed in the attempt.
How you become a manufacturer of lies is what I think must shame even the most carefree person.
Please endeavor to ensure that before making such spurious statements in public space, you understand how a system works and lend your ears to the wisdom that has already been spoken.