LAGOS COURT JAILS NOGASA CHAIR, FATUYI PHILLIPS 21 YEARS FOR N43. 5M FRAUD. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 Lagos Court Jails NOGASA Chair, Fatuyi Phillips 21 Years  for N43.5m Fraud    Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, November 18, 2024, convicted and sentenced Fatuyi Yemi Philips, Chairman, Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria, NOGASA, to 21 years imprisonment for N43.5m fraud.   The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on April 5, 2022, arraigned Philips alongside his firm, Oceanview Oil and Gas Limited, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N43, 502,000.00   Count one reads: "Fatuyi Yemi Philips and Oceanview Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited, on or about the 28th day of September, 2016 at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, obtained the aggregate sum of N43, 502,000.00 from Elochukwu Okoye and Elebana Unique Ventures Nigeria Limited on behalf of WAPCIL Nigeria Limited under the false rep

OBALUFEMI OBADEYI,A FAKE LASMA OFFICER ,TAKEN TO KIRIKIRI.

      Obalufemi Obadeyi,a fake officer of the Lagos state Traffic Management Authority,LASTMA,has been remanded in Kirikiri prison,Lagos,over extortion of motorists.He was arrested on Saturday 28 December,2013 and was later arraigned before an Ikeja magistrate court for impersonating as an official of the agency to extort money from unwary motorists.Obalufemi Obadeyi,33years  old graduate of Business Administration from the Yaba college of Technology,was employed into the Lagos state civil service in 2002,before he was dismissed by LASMA for misconduct in August 2006.After his dismissal,he was said to have sewn a new LASMA uniform and changed his name to avoid being detected.The father of one was arrested by the parol team of LASMA after receiving a tip off from some motorists who reported illegal activities of some one parading himself as an official of the agency while extorting money from them at Ojuelegba area of Lagos.The suspect after being arrested said that he was advised on dismissal from service to hand over all the agency's paraphernalia in his possession,but deliberately held onto his old identity card he had declared missing before his dismissal.The magistrate presiding over the case,Mrs Dan Oni,ruled that the accused be remanded in Kirikiri prisons till 16 January,pending when sentence would be passed.

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