Properties belonging to the senator representing Delta North Senatorial District, Delta State, Peter Nwaoboshi, have been ordered temporarily forfeited to the Federal Government.
The order was given by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday.
The properties are said to be far beyond the legitimate income of the senator.
The properties affected are, according to the ruling of the court, 14 and 22 bank accounts linked to the senator.
A “post-no-debit” order was placed on the bank accounts in by the judgement delivered on the suit No FHC/ABJ/CS/1127/18 filed by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel, SPIP, for the recovery of public property on behalf of the Federal Government.
The two forfeiture order read: “That interim order is hereby made forfeiting all the property alleged to belong to the 1st Respondent (Nwaoboshi) being suspicious assets or assets far and beyond the legitimate income of the 1st Respondent particularly those on the amended schedule to this application pending the investigation or motion on notice in the matter.
“That an order is hereby made restraining the 2nd-5th Respondents from posting any debt or withdrawals on all the accounts belonging to the first respondents particularly those on the amended schedule to the application attached to this order.”
In the order signed by the registrar of the court, Blessing Chibuzo-Ugwu, the court said any person with interest or third party interest in the listed properties should within 30 days show reasons why the properties should not be permanently forfeited to the federal government.
It would be recalled that the senator had earlier been referred to the Office of the Department of Public Prosecutions, Ministry of Justice by SPIP led by Okoi Obono-Obla over allegation of false assets declaration in his form CCB1 submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau.
A three-count charge was filed by the office of the Director of the Public Prosecution of the Federation (DPPF) at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCB).
