EFCC has declared a former Director General of the National
Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayodele Oke and his wife, Folasade,
wanted after they failed to answer for fraud charges filed against them.
Justice Chukwujeku Aneke of a Federal High Court Lagos, had
on February 7, 2019 issued an arrest warrant on them, consequent upon an oral
application by counsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo.
Oke and his wife are wanted in connection with the
$43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 cash recovered by the EFCC from an
apartment at Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, in April 2017. They are facing a
four-count charge bordering on money laundering offence to the tune of N13
billion.
One of the counts reads: "That you, Amb. Ayodele Oke
and Mrs. Folasade Ayodele Oke between 25th day of August 2015 and 2nd day of
September 2015 in Lagos, with in the jurisdiction of this court directly
converted $160,777,136.85 property of the Federal Government of Nigeria to your
own use which sum you reasonably ought to have known formed part of proceeds of
an unlawful act to wit: criminal breach of trust and you thereby committed an
offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition)
(Amendment) Act 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act".
