EFCC Arrainges NIPC Director For Alleged N15.8M Fraud...

Lamorde, EFCC Boss

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wednesday arraigned a Deputy Director with the Nigeria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC), Mr. Vincent Usiahon, for alleged oil business fraud before a Federal High Court in Abuja.
Usiahon was charged with a 29-count charge of intent to defraud and obtaining about N15.8 million under false pretences from the complainant, Mr. Sonny Atumah.

He allegedly collected the money at instalments over 16 months by deceiving Atumah, his friend of over 25 years that he would invest them in oil allocation business.

At the resumption of trial, the Prosecution Counsel, Austin Emumejakpor, called the first Prosecution Witness (PW1), Mrs. Lolade Longe, an Assistant Detective Superintendent with the EFCC, who said the agency on January 17, 2011, received a petition from one Chris Nwonu, a legal practitioner.

Longe said: “After receiving the petition, we wrote an invitation letter to the accused which he honoured. In honouring the interview, he volunteered a statement under caution. At a time he admitted that all he had been saying was a lie. He said he would like to discard it and tell the true story, and he did so.”

The court later adjourned case till May 23 for continuation of trial.