By Yemi Oyeyemi, Abuja.
A Civil Rights Group, Center for Reform and Public Advocacy, has served a 7-day ultimatum on the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA to arrest and prosecute the Presidential candidate of the All Progresdives Congress APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu over alleged hard drug and money laundering related offences.
The letter requesting for arrest and prosecution of Tinubu signed by the Legal Adviser to the group and an Abuja-based legal practitioner, Mr Kalu Agu, was served and received by NDLEA on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.
An officer in the Registry of the anti-drug trafficking agency, received and signed for the letter.
The grouse of the civil rights group against the APC Presidential candidate was that the United States of America filed criminal charges against Tinubu at the United States District Court in September 1993 in case number 93C4483 and that Tinubu was found guilty of money Laundering and drug related offences.
Based on his indictment, Tinubu was said to have on October 4, 1993 forefeitted a sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account number 263226700 domiciled at First Heritage Bank in the name of Bola Tinubu to the US government.
The group attached certified true copy of the US Court judgment to its letter of request for Tinubu’s arrest as evidence of the alleged offences and the conviction by the court.
The judgment was signed by Michael Shepard, a United States Attorney and Marsha McClellan, Assistant United States Attorney.
Also attached to the letter are the National Youth Service Corps NYSC bearing Tinubu Bola Adekunle and a Chicago State University in the name of Bola A. Tinubu to establish accuracy in the name.
An acknowledged copy of the letter of demand for Tinubu’s arrest and prosecution, addressed to the Chairman of the NDLEA and dated September 8, 2022 was sighted by our correspondent.
