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In
its sustained determination to recover assets acquired with the proceeds of
crime by corrupt persons, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured an Interim Forfeiture Order on two
assets located at Sabon Lugbe, Abuja.
Crimefacts.news learnt that following
a motion ex parte filed by counsel to ICPC, John
Paul Okwor, Justice Okon Abang J. of Federal High Court 6, sitting in Abuja
granted the order against the assets linked to an erstwhile staff of Nigeria
Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ms. Adenike Ishola Bintu and her
company, Faith Winners Properties Nigeria Ltd.
The properties
include an estate of 60 buildings at Plot No. MF1296 (10.9ha), Sabon Lugbe
South West Extension (Goza Airport Road), Abuja, and a property at Plot No.
ED1295 (9.6ha) located at Sabon Lugbe South West Extension (Goza Airport Road),
Abuja.
Ms. Bintu, a Deputy
Commandant, and her company are standing trial before the Federal Capital
Territory High Court in Charge No: FCT/HC/CR/101/2013 for using her company to
hoodwink unsuspecting members of the public into subscribing for allocation in
a proposed housing estate while passing off the said estate project as a
collaboration with her employer.
In the course of the
trial, Bintu jumped bail, and available information indicates that she is out
of the country. Blackrose Finbitnex
