Court hands over lawyer to EFCC over criminal charges against Oduah

Drama broke out on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja when Justice James Omotosho of the court handed police attorney Ibrahim Mohammed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for bringing an eight-count criminal complaint against Senator Stella Oduah without the anti-graft agency’s permission.

The Federal Government dismissed an eight-count case against Oduah in the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The former lawmaker, who is named as the only defendant in the lawsuit brought by the FG through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, is accused of making false claims that her National Youth Service Corps certificate had been stolen among other alleged offenses.

According to court records, Ochugwu Ogbeh Esq. and Ibrahim Mohammed Esq. of the Legal and Prosecution Department of the EFCC in Benin, Edo state, filed the charge on June 26, 2023, before the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division.

In answer to a query from a group known as the Concerned Anambra North PDP Stakeholders in May 2022, the NYSC revealed that Oduah did not finish the obligatory one-year NYSC training in a letter with the marking NYSC/DHQ/PPRU/783/Vol III.

According to the agency, Oduah started her NYSC training in 1982 but left before finishing it. She denied planning to conceal the facts with the former aviation minister.