Former Minister Godsday Orubebe has been ordered to forfeit
his landed property to the federal government.
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), handed down the order
of seizure and forfeiture of the landed property allegedly belonging to a
former Minister of the Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe, for failure to declare it
while he held sway as a minister.
The Federal Government had dragged Orubebe before the
tribunal on one count charge of non declaration of landed property situate at
Plot 2057, Asokoro district, which has been ordered to be taken over by the
government.
According to him, all the documents as it concerns the
land had been transferred to Ajibola, including the Power of Attorney.
Danladi Umar, the chairman of the tribunal however held
in his judgement, that having analysed the submissions of parties, it was
observed that six years after the transfer had been made, the documents of the
land are yet to be registered in Lands registry.
He further held that the prosecution had established its
case beyond reasonable doubt, and that the defendant is under obligation to
register the land in the land registry in Abuja, which was not done.
According to him, “Failure to register the document at
the land registry render the transfer null. In the circumstance, the defendant
is still the owner of the said plot 2057, Asokoro District, and not Barrister
Akinwumi Ajibola who testified as the Defense Witness 1.
“Based on the provision of Section 23 of the Code of
Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act, plot 2057, Asokoro District belonging to the
defendant is hereby confiscated and forfeited to the Federal Government”.
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