According to a statement by the Commission’s spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, Professor Ojerinde’s re-arrest followed a warrant issued by the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Ojerinde is expected to face a team of investigators over new evidence uncovered in relation to his ongoing trial for diversion of funds while he was a public officer.
ICPC operatives uncovered two accounts opened in the names of Trillium Learning Centre Ltd and Sapati International Schools Ltd into which funds were diverted using fictitious names of students.
The Commission had on the 12th December, 2022, invited the former JAMB Registrar for questioning over the new evidence, but he wrote through his solicitor requesting for 14 days grace to enable him honour the invitation.
In the course of its ongoing investigation, the Commission unearthed new evidence that suggests that Ojerinde is the sole signatory to various bank accounts operated in the name of Trillium Learning Centre Ltd and Sapati International School Ltd.
Ojerinde is currently being prosecuted by the Commission at the Federal High Court Abuja and Federal High Court,Minna on an 18-count charge bordering on abuse of office and fraud to the tune of about ten billion naira, while serving as heads of two government agencies, the National Examination Council and JAMB.
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