Jobless Man Arrested For Allegedly Stealing N300m (Pictured)

The man, Joshua Ekeocha, 31, pictured above was arrested by
operatives of the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos.

After his arrest and investigation, the police charged him
before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court on a three-count charge of conspiracy to
commit felony, to wit, stealing.

The police prosecutor, Supol Chidi Okoye, told the court
that Ekeocha and others still at large committed the offence on 22 and 27 May,
2014.

He said 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.

Okoye said the accused, after collecting the money from
Gambo Salisu, escaped and converted the money to his personal use.

He said the accused was arrested at a hideout and charged to
court when he could not give a satisfactory account of the money.

He added that the police also impounded the SUV the accused
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.

Ekeocha, however, pleaded not guilty to the crime in the
open court but Okoye objected to the bail of the accused on the ground that he
would jump bail and escape from Nigeria to join his in-law, who is also an
accomplice in the matter, in London.

After listening, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Y. R.
Pinheiro, who stood in for Chief Magistrate Miss A. O. Awogboro, ordered that
the accused be remanded in prison custody till 7 November, 2014 when his bail
will be considered.

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