Alleged N5.2B Fraud; Ex-JAMB Registrar, Ojerinde floated 8 companies, bought 3 houses in office - ICPC witness

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A Federal High Court in Abuja was on Wednesday told how a former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Lawrence

Adedibu Ojerinde allegedly floated 8 companies, purchased three buildings and bank shares through his cronies while holding public office.

The witness who is a Legal Adviser to the ex-JAMB Registrar admitted that he incorporated the 8 companies and purchased the three houses for Ojerinde as his client on oral and written instructions. Led in evidence by ICPC counsel, Mr Ebenezer Sogunle, the witness who claimed to have been called to the Nigerian Bar in 1999 told Justice Obiora Egwuatu that the companies were floated in the names supplied him by the defendant.

He said the receipts obtained in the course of transactions for the defendant were received and acknowledged in writing on behalf of the defendant by his son and a serving member of the House of Representatives, Honourable Olumide Ojerinde. He said photocopies of the bank drafts were delivered to him by one Dr Jimoh Olabisi, a former Director of Finance in JAMB and were admitted as exhibits.

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