EFCC Arraigns Naval Officer, 14 Others Over Illegal Oil Dealings

EFCC Arraigns Naval Officer, 14 Others Over Illegal Oil Dealings

The EFCC, Lagos office, today, October 30, 2019 arraigned a Senior Naval Officer, Bola Labinjo with service name as Lt.Cdr S. A. Ibe Lambert and fourteen others before Justice Hassan of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi on a two count charge bordering on conspiracy and unlawful dealing on petroleum product, an offence contrary to Section 17(a) and (b) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act Cap M17 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (Revised Edition) 2004 and punishable under the same Law.

Those arraigned alongside Bola Labinjo are:
Jonathan Abaka, Charles Ikemefuna Agaba, Benjamin Gold Gageche, Hamza Yakubu, Emmanuel Oputa, Peter Dung Pulle, Innocent Akpan, Kehinde Labinjo, Pius Mathew Paul, Onoja Musa Emmanuel Adeleke Hamed.
Others are a vessel and two companies namely: M.T. Adeline Jumbo, Global Shipping Activities Bureau Limited and Labland and Sea Services Limted. Six of the defendants; Bola Labinjo, Jonathan Abuka, Ikemefuna Charles Agaba, Benjamin Gold, Hamzat Yakubu and a vessel, M.T. Adeline Jumbo were first arraigned before a vacation judge, Justice Chuka Obiozor on the same count charge.