The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the arrest of Abdullahi Dikko, former Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).<\/p>\n
The court wants Dikko to appear at the next sitting on March 16, 2020.<\/p>\n
The order followed his continued failure to appear in court in an alleged corruption and bribery trial.<\/p>\n
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu turned down the lawyer\u2019s explanation that the defendant was ill and on admission in London.<\/p>\n
Dikko\u2019s lawyer, Solomon Akuma, SAN, had presented a medical report before the court.<\/p>\n
But the judge said the medical report bearing the address, N6 Ahmed Musa Crescent, Jabi, Abuja, contradicted Akuma\u2019s claim that the defendant was on admission in London.<\/p>\n
NAN reports that the ICPC in 2019 charged Dikko and two others with inducing the Managing Director of Cambial Limited, Yemi Obadeyi, to pay the sum of N1,100, 952,380.96 into the account of Capital Law Office.<\/p>\n
The fund was described as a refundable \u201ccompletion security deposit\u201d for the purchase of 120 units of duplexes as residential accommodation for officers of the NCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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