LAGOS COURT JAILS NOGASA CHAIR, FATUYI PHILLIPS 21 YEARS FOR N43. 5M FRAUD. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE
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
According sources,a Lagos based legal practitioner,Christopher Uzoamaka a.k.a Americana,has been re-arraigned before a Tinubu Magistrate Court Lagos for allegedly fingering the private part and anus of a 9 year old girl inside court 4,Tinubu Magistrate court without consent.The incident according to the police,occurred on 12th of August 2015 when the grand-mother of the victim came to the court to attend to her civil case pending in the court.The accused Christopher Uzoamaka was alleged to have lured the victim to an alley inside the court to allegedly commit the offence.The cry of the victim,according to investigation,attracted the grandmother who reportedly asked her daughter what happened to her.The victim told her mother that the accused fingered her private part and anus inside the court which caused her pains.Following the development,the Chief Magistrate in charge of Tinubu Magistrate court,Mrs G.B. Ayeye,ordered a police prosecutor,SGT Francisca Okere,to arrest the lawyer and take him to the Lion Building Police division for proper investigation.The lawyer was handcuffed and taken to the station.The lawyer was first arraigned before Tinubu Magistrate court on 13 August 2015 on a three court charge of indecent sexual assault on a 9 year old girl.The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge and was admitted to bail.When the matter came up yesterday Monday 31st August 2015,the police prosecutor Sgt Koti Aondohemba,informed the court that the police have amended the former charge against the accused and the accused was re-arraigned on a four count charge of felony to wit unlawful fingering and penetrating inside the private part and anus of a 9 year old girl without her consent at the Tinubu Magistrate court.The Magistrate admitted him on bail in the sum of N400,oo with two sureties in the like sum,one of whom must be a legal practitioner of over 10 years in practice.The case was adjourned till 24 of September 2015 for mention.
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