The travails of the embattled former NIMASA boss, Akpobolokemi and Niger Delta militant, Tompolo are far from over as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission gets set to file fresh charges against them.
Government Ekpemupolo Tompolo
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to file fresh criminal charges against Government Ekpemupolo (AKA Tompolo) and former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi over an alleged scam in the acquisition of a property worth N11, 765, 308, 339.80.
According to SaharaReporters, the property, Mieka Dive Institute, a sprawling expanse, purportedly acquired by NIMASA for the take-off of the Nigerian Maritime University, was approved for an outright purchase by the past administration in the sum of N13, 072,564,822.00 in which a sum of N11, 765, 308, 339.80 had been paid through NIMASA.
Patrick Akpobolokemi
Investigations showed that the fund was fraudulently claimed through an alleged false presentation of a Certificate of Customary Right of Occupancy of the property and an alleged inflation of the property sum.
This is in addition to the fact that, the same property was allegedly wrongly acquired and wrongly purchased, as the Omadino Community of Delta State, the rightful owners of the property is making a demand for rightful payment of the same land.
The court fixed February 8, 2016, for their arraignment.