The hospital,
St. Solomon Hospital, which is located on Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos,
is said to have state-of-the-art equipment including a Magnetic Resonance
Imaging machine which costs well over $1m.
A hospital
with medical equipment worth about $2.15m which was seized from a former Chief
of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), has been handed over to the
Nigerian Air Force, The PUNCH has learnt.
A reliable source at the
EFCC said that the EFCC could not manage the property and therefore decided to
hand it over to the Nigerian Air Force medical unit.
He said, “The hospital has
very expensive equipment including an MRI machine which is very rare. However,
we could not manage the hospital so we handed it over to the air force pending
the outcome of Amosu’s trial. It is assumed that the money used in buying the
hospital was stolen from the air force.”
Other properties seized
from Amosu included a house on Adeyemo Alakija Street, GRA Ikeja worth N250m; a
duplex at House 11, Peace Court Estate, GRA Ikeja worth N110m; a N40m property
located at NAF Harmony Estate, Asokoro base; a five-bedroomed house at Valley
NAF Estate, Port Harcourt, worth N33m and a N95m house on Umaru Dikko Street,
Jabi.
The Federal Government has
also commenced moves to seize Amosu’s house at 50 Tenterden Grove, NW41TH,
London worth about £2m.
Amosu as well as a former
Chief of Accounts and Budgeting in NAF, Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun (retd.);
and a former Director of Finance and Budget, Air Commodore Olugbenga Gbadebo
(retd.), are currently standing trial before a Federal High Court for allegedly
stealing N22.8bn from the coffers of the Nigerian Air Force between 2014 and
2015.
The commission has seized
33 properties they allegedly bought with stolen funds.
Documents made available to
our correspondent showed that besides the hospital, the EFCC had seized plazas,
schools, mansions, farms and a quarry from Amosun, Adigun and Gbadebo.
While almost N2.835bn cash
has been recovered from Amosu alone, Gbadebo has returned N190m. Adigun’s wife,
returned some money as well.
The document further stated
that properties recovered from Adigun were worth N9.6bn.
Calculations by our
correspondent showed that the cash and assets which the air force men might
forfeit permanently, add up to about N15bn which is more than three quarters of
what they allegedly stole.
They have, however, pleaded
not guilty to the charges.
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