EFCC Moves To Arrest Former Oyo Gov. Rashidi Ladoja

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to order the arrest of former Oyo State Governor Rashidi Ladoja over alleged refusal to show up in court for arraignment in a N4.7 billion money laundering charge.

Ladoja was charged along with his former aide, Chief Waheed Akanbi

Prosecuting counsel Olabisi Oluwafemi said the defendants did not honour EFCC honour the invitation but merely sent their lawyers to represent them.

He urged the court to issue a bench warrant against the defendants.

However, Ladoja’s lawyer, Bolaji Onilenle, said he did not know the matter was for arraignment as the case was still pending at the Supreme Court.

EFC gave a fiat to Mr Festus Keyamo to prosecute the case, not Oluwafemi, who is a counsel in Keyamo’s firm.

“We are challenging the locus standi of the prosecuting lawyer to set this matter down for hearing. If the flat is given to Keyamo, no other person in his chamber can take it over. It cannot be transferred.

“Keyamo should personally prosecute it, he cannot transfer the prosecutorial power to any other person in his chamber,” Onilenle said.

EFCC alleged that Ladoja and Akanbi conspired to convert properties and resources derived from an alleged illegal act, with the intention of concealing their illicit origin.