N13bn Ikoyi cash: EFCC to obtain bench warrant against Oke, wife

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is making moves to secure a bench warrant against the sacked Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayodele Oke and his wife, Folashade.

EFCC Counsel Rotimi Oyedepo yesterday informed Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State, that he had the intention of making an oral application, seeking the issuance of bench warrant against the sacked NIA DG and his wife.

The judge adjourned the case to today for the EFCC to move its oral application seeking for bench warrant against Oke and his wife

The EFCC had intended to arraign the defendants before the judge in connection with  $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 (totalling N13bn) removed by the EFCC from Flat 7B Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos linked to them.