{"id":75918,"date":"2020-09-23T03:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T02:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=75918"},"modified":"2020-09-23T03:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T02:33:41","slug":"efcc-arraigns-former-poly-director-for-n27m-contract-scam-in-awka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/efcc-arraigns-former-poly-director-for-n27m-contract-scam-in-awka\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Arraigns former Poly Director for N27m Contract Scam in Awka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1678572415272486702\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday, September<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">22, 2020, arraigned a former Director of Physical Planning, and<br \/>\ncurrently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Federal<br \/>\nPolytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, Architect Pius Ugochukwu Ezeokafor<br \/>\nbefore Justice O. A Ezeoke of the State High Court sitting in Ekwulobia,<br \/>\nAguata Local Government Area of Anambra State on a three-count charge<br \/>\nbordering on obtaining money by false pretence and gratification to the<br \/>\ntune of N27, 000,000.00 (Twenty Seven Million Naira).<\/p>\n<p>One of the charges read, &#8220;that you, Arc. Pius Ugochukwu Ezeokafor<br \/>\nsometime between the year 2011 and 2012 at Oko, Aguata Local Government<br \/>\nArea within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Anambra State, did<br \/>\ncommit felony to wit: with intent to defraud, obtained by false pretense<br \/>\nthe sum of N27, 000,000.00 (Twenty Seven Million Naira) from one Emerson<br \/>\nAssociates Limited and Dr. Okechukwu Enemuo (being Managing Director of<br \/>\nEmerson Associates Limited), when you represented to them that you would<br \/>\nhelp them get a contract of N1,000,000,000.00 (One Billion Naira) upon<br \/>\npayment of facilitation fee, which pretense you knew to be false and<br \/>\nthereby committed an offence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant allegedly met the petitioners on-site at the Polytechnic<br \/>\nwhere they were executing two construction contracts and offered to use<br \/>\nhis office as Director Of Physical Planning to swing a billion Naira<br \/>\ncontract for them if they would pay him an N27million facilitation fee.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving the payment, the defendant neither facilitated the<br \/>\npromised contract nor refund their money.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arraignment today, the defendant pleaded not guilty to the three<br \/>\ncount charges preferred against him by the EFCC.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the plea of the defendant, the prosecuting counsel, Fortune<br \/>\nAmina I. Asemebo asked for a trial date while the defense counsel Lucius<br \/>\nOgbuagu moved a motion for the bail of the defendant.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ezeoke, after hearing from both counsel, granted the defendant<br \/>\nbail in the sum of N10 million with one surety in like sum who must have<br \/>\nlanded property within the jurisdiction of Court. The surety must be<br \/>\nrecommended by a legal practitioner or town union president and must<br \/>\nshow evidence of tax clearance for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>The court adjourned the matter till 14th, 21st October and 5th November<br \/>\n2020 for trial.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, arraigned a former Director of Physical Planning, and currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Federal Polytechnic,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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