Press Release
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday,
December 10, 2014, arraigned one Michael Ogun popularly known as Idris Suleiman,
before Justice Olubukola A. Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court
Apo, Abuja, for offences bordering on forgery.
The accused was alleged to have extorted money from members of the
public on the pretence of offering them employment into the Nigerian Security
Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and other paramilitary agencies.
He is also being investigated in a suspected case of money laundering.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the 6-count charge preferred against
him by the EFCC.
Count one reads: “that you Michael Ogun a.k.a Idris Suleiman sometime in
March 2014 in Abuja Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital
Territory with intent to defraud did obtain the sum of eight thousand five
hundred naira (N8,500.00) from one Angela Chinwe Okeke through Access Bank
account number: 0064938358 belonging to Idris Suleiman when you falsely
represented yourself as capable of providing her with a job at the Nigerian
Security and Civil Defence Corps, which pretence you knew to be false and
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section1(1)(b) of the Advance Fee
Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under
Section1(3) of the same Act”.
Based on the plea of the accused person, counsel to EFCC, Yetunde Alabi
asked the court to fix a date for trial to commence.
However, counsel to the first accused, S.I Imoke urged the court to
admit his client to bail. He stated that the accused person was ready to face
trial and would not do anything to frustrate it.
Justice Adeniyi granted the accused bail in the sum of N2million (two
million naira) and two sureties in like sum.
The case has been adjourned to February 18, 2015 for trial.
In a related development, an official of the Katsina State Command of
the Nigerian Prison Service, Sani Usman Danbulbuli was on Tuesday
December 9 arraigned by the EFCC before Justice Rilwanu Mohammed Aikawa of
the Federal High Court Sitting in Sokoto, on a 5-count charge bordering
on employment fraud and obtaining by false pretence.
The accused sometime in 2011 met one Usman Sani isah at Abuja and
promised to help secure employment for him with the Nigerian Customs Service.
Thereafter he collected various sums of money amounting to N400,000.00 (four
hundred thousand Naira) which he claimed will be used to purchase
Customs training kits and uniforms.
But the employment neither materialise nor was he willing to refund the
money collected from the victim.
The accused person pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Justice Aikawa however granted him bail in the sum of N500,000.00 and a surety in like sum who must be a civil servant not below grade level 8.
The case is adjourned to December 16, 2014 for trial.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
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