Orubebe Lied On Asset Declaration Form, Owns Secret Property

Yesterday, the prosecution in the case of false assets declaration against former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, opened, with its first witness giving details of how the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) discovered a property owned by Orubebe in Abuja which he allegedly refused to disclose.

The first prosecution witness, Samuel Madojemu, an official of CCB, accused Orubebe of failing to declare his property at Plot 2057, Asokoro District, Abuja, as a minister between 2007 and 2011, despite submitting five asset declaration forms to the bureau within the period.

He said the Certificate of Occupancy ( C of O ) for the property obtained from the land registry of the FCT administration, showed that it was issued to Orubebe on April 10, 2011, a month to the end of his tenure, but that he failed to declare it as of the time he was leaving office on May 29, 2011. .
Madojemu said, “Apart from the letter from the FCT Land Administration registry, we also received the Certified True Copy of the Certificate of Occupancy in respect of Plot number 2057 issued to the defendant. We also received the CTC of the Right of Occupancy for that same Plot No. 2057 issued to the defendant.

Also received from the FCT Land Administration registry was a letter of authority given to one Rodney, an engineer, by the defendant, authorising him to collect the Certificate of Occupancy and the Right of Occupancy from the FCT Land registry. It was supported by the (passport) page of the defendant.”