Nine directors of the commission charged with Dr Olagunju for alleged complicity were also sent to prison.
That was after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned them yesterday for conspiring with one another to perpetrate fraud involving N278million in the commission.

Onovo promised that he would continue from where his predecessor, Okiro stopped, pointing out that “we will ensure we have a stable and secure society with crime brought down to the barest minimum by initiating new crime fighting strategies and employing our greatest assets, manpower through well motivated measures.”

The founding fathers did not give any attention to the issue of how the country would be governed after independence. All the attention was focused on how to get the British colonialists out of the country and to start a process of self governance.

According to her counsel, “this development is, however, saddening and most worrisome where to the knowledge and information of the corporation neither our company nor our Ms. Onyeador is in any way indebted to the said bank”.

They said that the proposed Petroleum Industries Bill is anti-Niger Delta communities and a slap on the oil producing area; that the movement of university of Petroleum from Effurn to Kaduna is unacceptable. Other reasons include the absence of definite post-amnesty plan for the region which they consider crucial to the success of the deal and that the Petroleum Minister, Rilwan Lukman is anti Niger Delta.