By Deborah Onyofufeke, Abuja
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), yesterday, re-arrested the former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Adedibu Ojerinde at the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja, shortly after his case was adjourned till February 15.
It was revealed that the arrest order was issued by the Chief Judge of the high court, Justice John Tsoho, following an ex-parte application that was brought by the ICPC.
Though ICPC operatives refused to disclose the reason for the re-arrest, Ojerinde, was already in court, facing trial for allegedly diverting public funds totalling about N5billion and the Commission had earlier obtained a warrant for his arrest.
A former Deputy Director of Finance at the examination body, Mr Jimoh Olabisi, who appeared as a witness in Ojerinde’s trial, had in his Evidence-In-Chief before the court, made indicting revelations that were not part of the charge already pending against the Defendant.
“There are still so many things that we want the Defendant to explain but because he has been on bail, he has been reluctant to make himself available to the Commission.
“As a law-abiding institution, we approached the court and obtained a warrant for his arrest. It is that warrant that we have executed”, a member of the prosecution team had disclosed yesterday.
The former JAMB boss was arrested while he was heading to his car with one of his sons, after trial Justice Obiora Egwatu adjourned further proceedings in the pending 18-count charge the ICPC preferred against him.
