A former Diamond Bank Manager who is being tried for some criminal act, has found himself in prison custody.
Chinedu Oguike, a former Manager of Diamond Bank Plc., has been remanded to prison custody.
The man was ordered to be remanded in prison by the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos over a N24 million fraud charge.
According to Sahara Reporters, Justice Abdul Aziz Anka gave the
ruling on Tuesday when the defendant was arraigned by the Police Special
Fraud Unit for a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining
money under false pretense, and advance fee fraud.
CSP Effiong Asuquo, the force prosecutor, accused Mr. Oguike of
defrauding one Ufomba Nnabugwu of N24 million on the pretense that he
would secure a property for Mr. Nnabugwu in the Ijegun area of Lagos
State. The defendant was also accused of awarding a loan to himself with
fictitious collateral under the name Edwin Obele Ezeakachukwu.
The offenses, which were allegedly committed in 2014, contravene
the provisions of Section 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud
Related Offences Act of 2006 and punishable under Section 1(1)(a)(3) of
the same Act as well as Section 1(2)(c) of the Miscellaneous Offences
Act Cap. M17 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
The defense counsel, John Itodo, made an oral bail application
after his client had pleaded not guilty to the three-count charges
levied against him. He urged the court to grant bail to his client
because he had been on bail before the magistrate and did not default on
the conditions of bail granted earlier.
Mr. Itodo added that the matter had been ongoing at the Magistrate
Court for about two years before it was withdrawn and brought before the
Federal High Court.
Mr. Itodo argued that the prosecutor took his client by surprise,
having just been informed this morning that the case had been withdrawn
from the Magistrate Court and was being filed before the Federal High
Court.
In favor of the defense counsel, who opposed the plea for bail,
Justice Anka ruled that a proper application for bail be filed before
the court. The judge adjourned the case to September 6.
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