Fuel Subsidy scam: Bamanga Tukur's son, 11 others charged

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FUEL SUBSIDY SCAM:

Bamanga Tukur's son, 11 others charged

BY ABDULWAHAB ABDULAH, ONOZURE DANIA & BARTHOLOMEW MADUKWE

•7 companies also charged; suspects to be arraigned today

•Imoukhuede committee submits report, indicts 21 firms •Petroleum marketers threaten to shut operations in 48 hours CHARGED: OIL COMPANIES CHARGED

Nasaman Oil Services; Eternal Oil and Gas Plc; Contario Oil & Gas Plc; Nadabo Energy Limited; Pacific Silver Line Limited; Axenergy Limited; Fago Petroleum and Gas Limited.

DIRECTORS FACING TRIAL

Mamman Nasir Ali; Christian Taylor; Mahmud Tukur; Ochonogor Alex; Walter Agbasoma; Adaoha Ugo-Ngadi; Fakuade Babafemi Ebenezer; (staff of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulating Agency, PPPRA); Ezekiel Olaleye Ejidele (director of the accounting firm of Akintola Williams Deloitte); Abubakar Ali Peters; Jude Agube Abalaka; Abdulahi Alao; SUBSIDY REPORT—Mr Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede submitting the Fuel Subsidy CommitOluwaseun tee's report to President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, yesterday. Photo: NAN. Ogunbambo C M Y K

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AGOS—THE law bared its fangs, yesterday, as the Ikeja and Lagos judicial divisions will try 7 oil companies and 12 directors charged before them. They face between 7 years and 20 years imprisonment and to refund N304bn which was alleged to have been illegally taken from the Federal Government coffers.

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