EFCC Arraigns Ex-Ebonyi Council Chair, Two Others For N25m Fraud
EFCC Arraigns Ex-Ebonyi Council Chair, Two Others For N25m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, July 28, 2016 summoned a previous Coordinator of Afikpo South Local Government Development Center of Ebonyi state, Ugwuocha Okoroafor; his treasurer, Christian Chukwu Owo, and the regulatory officer, Mrs. Anne Eke Agwu before Justice E.A. Ngene of the State High Court, Afikpo, on a 15-check charge of intrigue and taking of open assets totaling over N25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five Million Naira).
by Economic and Financial CrimES COMMISSIONThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, July 28, 2016 summoned a previous Coordinator of Afikpo South Local Government Development Center of Ebonyi state, Ugwuocha Okoroafor; his treasurer, Christian Chukwu Owo, and the managerial officer, Mrs. Anne Eke Agwu before Justice E.A. Ngene of the State High Court, Afikpo, on a 15-tally charge of connivance and taking of open assets totaling over N25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five Million Naira).
Okoroafor and his affirmed accessories were said to have at different times somewhere around 2013 and 2015 raised vouchers for installments as far as anyone knows for contract honors, pay rates and freedom day festivities in the names of staff of the board, who denied getting such supports.
Examination concerning the matter which was accounted for by Center for Prevention of Corruption and Human Right Initiatives and some staff of the board uncovered that the denounced persons cushioned their compensations and that of other staff in conspiracy with a staff of the bank where the neighborhood Government's record is domiciled .
The aggregate of N16, 000,000 and N8, 000,000 were at various times followed to the charged individual's record which their wage profile couldn't legitimize.
At the point when the charges were perused to them, all the denounced persons argued not blameworthy to the charges, provoking advice to the blamed persons, M.O. Njoko and B.O Igwenyi (SAN) to request that the court discharges their customers on safeguard.
The court conceded safeguard to each of the blamed persons in the whole for N500,000 and one surety each in like total. The surety the Judge ruled, must be an occupant of the state, who has a landed property inside the locale and must present confirmation of three years charge installment.
The matter has been deferred to September 21, 2016, for beginning of the trial.
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