LAGOS COURT ORDERS REMAND OF TWO BANKERS, FIVE OTHERS OVER ALLEGED N8.5 BILLION FRAUD
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By: Motunrayo Aniwura
Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered the remand of two bankers and five others at a Nigerian Correctional Service facility over allegations of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence amounting to N8.5 billion.
The accused were arraigned on Friday, May 23, 2025, by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on an eight-count charge.
The bankers, Samuel Ihechukwu and Fabian Chizaram, are employees of a first-generation bank. Others involved in the case include Kingsley Kelechi Ejim, Hannah Okunlola Adesokan, Hamza Zakariya, Achionu Chukwuka Ubaku, and Sunday Osademe.
According to the First Information Report, “That you, Samuel Ihechukwu Asiegbu, Ejim Kingsley Kelechi, Hamza Zakaria, Onyeimachi Fabian, Achionu Chukwuka Ubaka, Adesokan Hannah Okunlola, Nurudeen Ibrahim (at large), Alhaji Sulaiman (at large), and other persons at large, sometime in January 2025, conspired amongst yourselves to cause loss of property to bank accounts domiciled in Wema Bank Nigeria Plc., in order to confer economic benefit on yourselves, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 27(1)(a) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015, and punishable under the same Act.”
When the charge was read, they all pleaded not guilty.
The prosecution counsel, Aso Larrys Peters, following the defendants’ pleas, requested the court to fix a trial date and that they be remanded in a correctional facility.
Presiding Judge Justice Osiagor adjourned the case to June 6, 2025, for trial.
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