₦700m Fraud: Court To Decide Ize-Iyamu’s Fate Today
July 2, 2020
6:33 am
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming 19 Edo election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, will know his fate today when he appears at the Federal High Court, Benin City.
Ize-Iaymu is being arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on an eight-count charge of money laundering to the tune of ₦700 million reportedly deployed to prosecute the 2015 general elections.
The former Secretary to the Edo Government is standing trial alongside four others before Justice J. M. Umar, who is the presiding judge.
The other four defendants are Lucky Imasuen, former deputy governor of …
