* Ogah 
The  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Monday picked up businessman/politician, Uche Ogah at the premises of a Lagos State Magistrates’ Court, in Tinubu, Lagos Island.

 Ogah, President of Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, and Abia State governorship aspirant was in the court for  a case between him and Mrs. Bridget Adeosun, a businesswoman. Ogah and other defendants in the case were accused of conspiring  to forge a Memorandum of Understanding between Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited and Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited,a company  belonging to Adeosun sometime in March 2011.

 The police Monday withdrew the case and it was subsequently struck out by the police. Ogah was subsequently arrested by the EFCC outside the 
premises of the court.

 However, one of the counsels to Ogah, Mr Monday Onyekachi told theledgerng.com that the whole affair was stage managed.

 "Outside the court premises, the EFCC invited Dr Ogah to their office that there was a petition against him. We followed them to their office
and explained the issues of the court case to them.

 "They were satisfied with his explaination and asked him to go. As I am talking to you now, we are on our our way home" Onyekachi affirmed.

 A certain Mrs Bridget Adeosun had dragged Ogah to court and the charges against him read:  “That you, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Uche Ogah, and others at large sometime in March 2011 at Ikeja, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to wit: forgery.

 “That you, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Uche Ogah, and others at large, on the same date, time, place and in the aforementioned magisterial district, did forge the signature of one Mrs. Bridget Adeosun and a document known as MoU between Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited and Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, with an intent that it may be in any way used or acted upon as genuine.

 “That you, Deji Somoye, United Bank for Africa and others still at large, sometime in August 2011, at UBA regional office, Palmgrove, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did knowing that Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited designed to commit an offence, failed to use all reasonable means to prevent the commission or the completion of the crime.”

 When the case was called, the Police prosecutor, Henry Obiazi, told the presiding magistrate, Mrs. Kikelomo Ayeye, that he had the instruction of the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to withdraw the charges against Ogah and his co-defendants.

 “I am instructed by the IGP to withdraw this case, as the issue is pending with the SFU,” Obiazi said.

 The charges were consequently struck out by the court.

 But as soon as Ogah stepped out of the court room, he was arrested by the waiting EFCC operatives who drove him away in their van.