Nigeria: EFCC raises four policemen who allegedly steal N1.3 billion from the police

For the alleged redirection of N1,301,334,108, the Commission for Economic and Financial Crime (EFCC) has filed four police officers, including two companies, before the Ikeja Special Crime Court.

The defendant was accused by the Ministry of Justice Sherifat Solebo of Olumide Odumosu, Sule Tegina, Helen Nwafor and Okpalugo Ifeoma, Olu Osmond Nigeria Limited and Jemmy Yus Investment Nigeria Limited.

Against theft and theft, contrary to Article 409 of the Criminal Code of Lagos in 2011, 14 invoicing charges are charged and may be punishable under Article 285 (1) of the same law.

According to the tariff, Temp. / 39698/2018, the anti-graft committee claimed that the accused had stolen N1.3 billion from the casualty of the Nigeria police and fraudulently transformed their own from 2013 to 2014.

They claimed to have conspired with a Joseph Ogbadu and a Hassan Muhammad, who they said were great. According to the Rotimi Oyedepo prosecution, the defendants committed the crime between May 21 and 2014, 2013.

When the matter was called, the defendants who had been accused yesterday could not base their plea on the third defendant Helen Nwafor, who informed the court that he did not understand the English language and required the translation of the indictment. Igbo language.

The judge was suspended until 7 November 2018 to obtain an Igbo interpreter. However, the defendant lawyer, A.O. Osinfowora appealed to the court that defendants should be returned to the EFCC's arrest, but the judge rejected the prayer and ordered the defendants to be held in prisons.