Family Petitions IG, Demands Forensic Audit Of Funds From Shell

The Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu has been urged to act quickly in order to avert a breakdown of law and order in Bonny Kingdom in River State, which may further dwindle the country’s crude output per day.

The IGP has also be tasked to intervene so that the fracas does not shutdown the operations of Shell Petroleum Crude Oil Export Terminal and NLNG plant.

The call followed a dispute over oil royalties by the Jumbo Major House with stakeholders petitioning the IGP for a forensic audit of money received by the House and its sub-houses from all international oil companies operating in the jurisdiction.

In a petition dated January 8 2021, and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, counsel to one of the interested parties, Mr. P.O. Okoroafor of Andy Igboekwe(SAN)& Co Chamber, urged the IG to freeze all the accounts where money allegedly collected from the oil companies is domiciled.

The petition which is titled: “Re: Grand design to truncate, frustrate, thwart, giving false information to the police with intent to suppress, divert and forestall police investigation predicated upon IGP,” asked the Police Boss to wade into the fracas to avoid a further diminishing of the number of oil barrels produced by Nigeria per day.

Also, a new petition titled: ” Case of fraud, criminal deceit, misappropriation of money in Jumbo Major House” which seeks to consolidate on the earlier one, and dated 7th February, 2020, the solicitor alleged that a group involving Asai Jumbo misappropriated N900,000,000.00, another one led by Prof. Jasper Jumbo, collected N500,000,000.00, while that of Sodieye Jumbo allegedly received N1,400,000,000.00.

It reads: “Our client’s petition was approved by the Inspector General of Police vide a letter dated 7th February, 2020 with reference number CB: 7000/IGP.SEC/ABJ/VOL.472/315, addressed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB), Area 10, Garki, Abuja.

“This petition was subsequently assigned to Supol Lawal Mohammed of the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) who with his formidable team immediately swung into action with the needed mastery and vigour.

“Our client informed us that the principal suspect with his characteristic, endemic sinister intention sought to divert the attention of the team by his move to seek for a transfer of the case file to the Force Criminal Investigation Department instead of the FIB approved by the Inspector General of Police as stated in the above preceding paragraph, hence, our client’s letter through the office of M.A. Igwe & Co, dated 24th July, 2020.

“Also, to ensure that proceeds of crime in this petition are preserved by the immediately taking steps to freeze all accounts where the stolen monies are now domiciled and bring the suspects to book in order to avoid the breakdown of law and order in the family in particular and in Bonny Kingdom in general which is a home to Shell Petroleum Crude Oil Export Terminal and NLNG plant.

“Finally, we demand that a forensic audit of all monies received by Jumbo Major House and its sub-houses from the International Oil Companies and from all the tenants be carried out as part of the investigation.”

The succeeding petition, reportedly authorized by Prince Kalada William-Jumbo, the senior principal member of Jumbo Major House of Grand Bonny Kingdom; and Hon. Charles Omuso Jumbo, elder and member of Jumbo Major House alleged that suspects in the case were trying to transfer the case from the Force Intelligence Bureau to the Force Criminal Investigation Department.

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