4 police staff remanded over N1.3bn fraud
The Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has ordered that four police staff should be remanded in prison custody for allegedly diverting N1.3 billion from the coffers of the Nigeria Police Force. The defendants are: Olumide Odumosu, Sule Tegina, Helen Nwafor and Okpalugo Ifeoma. Others are two companies: Olu Osmond Nigeria Limited and Jemmy […]
The Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has ordered that four police staff should be remanded in prison custody for allegedly diverting N1.3 billion from the coffers of the Nigeria Police Force.
The defendants are: Olumide Odumosu, Sule Tegina, Helen Nwafor and Okpalugo Ifeoma. Others are two companies: Olu Osmond Nigeria Limited and Jemmy Yus Investment Nigeria Limited.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday charged the defendants on a 14-count criminal charge alleging that they stole N1.3bn from the coffers of the Nigeria Police Force and fraudulently converted it to their own between 2013 and 2014.
The EFCC further alleged that the defendants conspired with one Ogbadu Joseph and one Hassan Muhammed, who are still on the run.
The defendants were billed to be arraigned in court yesterday but the proceedings were stalled as the 3rd defendant, Helen Nwafor, told the court that she did not understand English language and would require the charges to be translated to her in Igbo language.
Justice Silifat Solebo thereafter adjourned the matter to November 7, 2018 to get an Igbo interpreter.