The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC will on
September 15, 2015 re-arraign Julius Ola Peters, Emeka Iloegbunam, Ijeoma David
Alanza, Jonathan Wallang and Dinijocs Nigeria Limited before Justice Ishaq U.
Bello of Federal Capital Territory High Court Maitama on a twelve count charge
bordering on forgery and obtaining money under false pretences to the tune of
N207, 000, 000,000 (two hundred and seven billion naira).
Ola Peters and Iloegbunam, former President and Vice
President respectively of the NLNG Staff Bonny Co-operative Investment and
Credit Society Limited, alongside Ijeoma David Alanza and Dinijocs Nigeria
Limited, fleeced members of the Cooperatives under various guises. For
instance, they allegedly drew the sum of N1, 220,000,000.00 (one billion, two
hundred and twenty two million naira) from the NLNG Cooperatives account
purportedly to purchase a 643398 hectares of land in the Idu-Sabo District,
Cadastral Zone D04 of the Federal Capital Territory as against the actual price
of N830,000,000.00 (eight hundred and thirty million naira).
One of the counts reads:
“That you Julius Ola Peters, Emeka Iloegbunam being the former president
and vice president respectively of the NLNG Staff Bonny Cooperative Investment
and Credit Society Limited, Ijeoma David Alanza and Dinijocs Nigeria Limited
sometime between August, 2011 and January 2012 in Abuja within the Jurisdiction
of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja with intent to
defraud obtained the sum of N1,220,000,000.00 (One billion, two hundred and
twenty million) naira by false pretenses in excess of the actual purchase price
of N830,000,000.00 (eight hundred and thirty million) naira only from the NLNG
Staff Bonny Cooperative Investment and Credit Society Limited under the pretext
that same was consideration for buying a plot of land viz: plot No.1, Idu-Sabo
District, Cadastral Zone D04, measuring 643398 Hectares covered by file no:
MISC 106282 from Larix Company Limited for the benefit and on behalf of members
of the NLNG Staff Bonny Cooperative Investment and Credit Society Limited and
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advanced Fee
Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section
1(3) of the same Act”.
The accused persons had pleaded not guilty on May 26, 2015
when they were first arraigned, while the court adjourned to June 30, 2015 for
trial. But EFCC counsel, Sylvanus Tahir who was not present in court at the
time, after a review of the arraignment, faulted the procedure adopted, that
allowed the accused persons to take their plea outside the courtroom and
consequently applied to the court for proper arraignment.
The accused persons were supposed to take fresh pleas today
but the proceedings were stalled owing to the absence of the trial judge who
sent words that he was involved in other engagements. Consequently, the parties
were asked to take new dates, and settled for September 15, 2015.
6 Comments
Serves them right
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