Days to 2023 Elections, Prominent APC Senator Arrested, Remanded in Prison
- Senator Peter Nwaoboshi of the APC is to spend the next seven years at Ikoyi Custodial Centre in Lagos
- The lawmaker representing Delta North in the Senate was arrested by the EFCC in Lagos on Monday, February 6
- Nwaoboshi is said to be guilty of N805 million money laundering charge instituted against him by the anti-graft agency
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Lagos - The senator representing Delta North in the National Assembly, Peter Nwaoboshi, was remanded in the Ikoyi Custodial Centre on Wednesday, February 8.
Nwaoboshi's ordeal came after he was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Source: Twitter
The development is a follow-up to the Court of Appeal's seven-year sentence on the federal lawmaker for a N805 million money laundering charge.
Speaking on the senator's arrest, the commission's head of media and publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement disclosed that he was arrested by EFCC operatives at a hospital in Lagos on Monday, February 6.
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Via its Twitter page on Wednesday, the EFCC announced:
"The Senator representing Delta North in the National Assembly, Peter Nwaoboshi, who has been on the run months after the Court of Appeal Lagos Division convicted and sentenced him to 7 years imprisonment.
"The Court of Appeal judgement that convicted Nwaoboshi followed an appeal by the EFCC against the judgment of Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of a Federal High Court in Lagos, which had on June 18, 2021, discharged and acquitted the lawmaker and his companies."
Court sentences prominent Senator Nwaoboshi to 7 years in prison
Recall that the Court of Appeal in Lagos had convicted and sentenced Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, representing Delta North Senatorial District, to seven years imprisonment.
Legit.ng had reported that the EFCC in a statement via Facebook said the appellate court gave the verdict on Friday, July 1.
It was gathered that the court also ordered that the senator's two companies, Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd, be wound up in line with the provisions of Section 22 of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2021.
The ruling followed the success of EFCC's appeal which challenged a Federal High Court judgment which discharged and acquitted the senator of a two-count charge of fraud and money laundering.
Source: Legit.ng
