Alex Badeh, ex-CDS faces theft charge today

Alex Badeh, ex-CDS faces theft charge today

Thursday, March 3, 2016 6:11 am


Alex Badeh

Alex Badeh


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is ready with a 10-count charge of corruption and stealing against former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh and Iyalikam Nig Ltd, a company linked to him.

Badeh is expected to be arraigned today at a Federal High Court in Abuja, a report by Daily Trust said.

The charge sheet signed by Aliyu Yusuf, EFCC’s deputy director, Legal, accused the former Defence Chief of stealing from the Nigerian Air Force to purchase landed properties in choice areas in Abuja, between January and December 2013.

Badeh and the company were also accused of stealing from NAF account, the dollar equivalent of N650m to purchase a commercial plot at plot 1386, Oda Crescent Cadastral zone Ao7 Wuse ll Abuja among other allegations.  

He was also alleged to have removed the sum of N304m from the accounts of the NAF and paid it to Rytebuilders for the completion of the shopping mall.

The EFCC stated that the accused used N260m stolen from the NAF accounts and paid to one Oluwatoyin Oke through Platinum Universal Project and Construction to purchase for his son, Alex Badeh (jnr), a duplex at No 19 Kumasi crescent Wuse Abuja.

Parts of the 10-count charge against him are:

“That you Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh (whilst being the Chief of Air Staff, Nigerian Air Force) and Iyalikam Nigeria Limited between January and December 2013 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did use dollar equivalent of the sum of N1.1 billion removed from the accounts of the Nigerian Air Force to purchase for yourselves a mansion situate at No. 6 Ogun River Street, Off Danube Street, Maitama, Abuja, thereby committed an offence contrary to section 15(2)(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and punishable under section 15(3) of the same Act.

“That you Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh (whilst being the Chief of Air Staff, Nigerian Air Force) and Iyalikam Nigeria Limited between January and December 2013 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did use dollar equivalent of the sum of N650,000,000 removed from the accounts of the Nigerian Air Force to purchase for yourselves a commercial plot of land situate at Plot 1386, Oda Crescent Cadastral Zone A07, Wuse II, Abuja.“That you Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh (whilst being the Chief of Air Staff, Nigerian Air Force) and Iyalikam Nigeria Limited between January and December 2013 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did use an aggregate sum of N878,362,732.94 removed from the accounts of the Nigerian Air Force and paid into the account of Rytebuilders Technologies Limited with Zenith Bank Plc for the construction of a shopping mall situate at Plot 1386, Oda Crescent Cadastral Zone A07, Wuse II, Abuja for yourself.“That you Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh (whilst being the Chief of Air Staff, Nigerian Air Force) and Iyalikam Nigeria Limited between January and December 2013 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did use dollar equivalent of the sum of N304 million removed from the accounts of the Nigerian Air Force and paid into the account of Rytebuilders Technologies Limited to complete the construction for yourselves a shopping mall situate at Plot 1386, Oda Crescent Cadastral Zone A07, Wuse II, Abuja for yourself.”


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  • ode says:

    Badeh now says he is been persecuted! Badeh, really? Your drunken stupors in the company of women of catastrophically easy virtues while our soldiers were dying ill-equipped at the warfront is an open-secret. Let the facts speak!!!

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