A jobless young man, Joshua Ekeocha, will have to explain why he stole the whopping sum of N300 million
Joshua Ekeocha, an unemployed 31-year-old, sure has big dreams of making fast money when he stole
a whopping sum of N300 million ($1,950,000) meant for the payment for
oil drilling services in N’Djamena, Chad Republic. The young man who
thought he had gotten away with the huge sum of money, was however,
arrested by operatives of the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan in Lagos
State.
Upon his arrest and investigation, the
police preferred against him a three-count charge of conspiracy to
commit felony, to wit; stealing, before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court.
Addressing
the court, the police prosecutor, Supol Chidi Okoye, stated that
Ekeocha and others still at large committed the said offence on 22 and
27 May, 2014.
According to him, the accused
collected the sum of $1,950,000 from Gambo Salisu, a Bureau de Change
agent in Lagos while pretending to remit it into the account of SAS
Petroleum and Dasub Nigeria Limited for the payment for oil drilling
services in N’Djamena, Chad Republic.
The police
prosecutor maintained that the accused, after collecting the money from
Gambo Salisu, escaped and converted the money to his personal use,
stressing that the accused was arrested at a hideout and charged to
court when he could not give a satisfactory account of the money.
Disclosing that the police also impounded an SUV allegedly used in committing the crime, Okoye noted that the offences the accused committed are punishable under sections 409, 312 and 285 of the criminal laws of Lagos State, 2011.
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