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The bankers were arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, May 23, 2025.
Two bankers and five of their accomplices have been remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Service facility on an eight-count charge bordering on alleged conspiracy and obtaining under false pretence to the tune of N8.5 billion.
The order was given by Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State.
The bankers were arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, May 23, 2025.
They include Samuel Ihechukwu and Fabian Chizaram, who are employees of one of the first-generation banks.
The others include their colleague Kingsley Kelechi Ejim, Hanna 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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