EFCC clears CCT Chairman, Umar of N10m bribery

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has
cleared the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT,
Justice Dandali Umar, of any culpability in the N10 million
bribery allegation leveled against him.
The clearance was formally conveyed by the EFCC to
Justice Umar in a letter signed by the Secretary of the
commission,  Emmanuel Adegboyega Aremo.
The letter was addressed to the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation.
The clearance, according to a document obtained by
Vanguard, followed the inability of the commission to
establish a prima facie evidence against Umar.
Umar was investigated by the anti-graft agency over
allegation that he demanded N10 million bribe from a retired
Customs officer, Rasheed Owolabi, who was said to have
had issues with the CCT. He is said to have collected the
sum of N1.8 million from Owolabi through the account of
his Special Assistant, Ali Gambo Abdullahi.
However, the EFCC said that after investigating the case for
sometime, it became clear that the whole allegation
bordered in the realm of mere suspicion and that it would be
difficult to charge the CCT judge to court based in the
allegation.
The latest clearance letter was second to the one sent on
March 5,2015 during President Goodluck Jonathan's
administration.