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BREAKING: FG charges Ekweremadu, Akpan with refusal to declare assets

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6 years ago

October 10, 2018

The Federal Government has charged the Deputy Senate President , Ike Ekweremadu , and Senator Bassey Akpan , who represents Akwa Ibom North- East Senatorial District in Akwa Ibom State , with offences bordering on their alleged refusal and negligence to declare their assets to the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property .
On Wednesday , Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja where two separate sets of charges were instituted against the senators , ordered that the charges and other accompanying papers be served on the two of them through the Clerk of the National Assembly .

The judge , after granting the orders for service through substituted means , fixed October 22 for the next hearing date in respect of Ekweremadu ’ s case and November 19 for Akpan ’ s .

The Okoi Obono -Obla – led SPIPRPP had , on behalf of the Federal Government , filed the two separate criminal suits containing two counts each against the senators .

It filed the criminal suit marked FHC / ABJ /CR / 62 / 2018 against Ekweremadu on May 11 , 2018 , while it instituted the one marked FHC / ABJ / CR / 88 / 2018 against Akpan on June 13 , 2018 .

Details later.