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

3 PEOPLE WERE ARRAIGNED YESTERDAY,FOR N25 MILLION EBONYI STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT FRAUD.{PHOTO}.

                The EFCC yesterday thursday,July 28,2016,arraigned the former Coordinator of Afikpo South Local Government Development Center of Ebonyi state,Hon. Ugwuocha Okorafor,his Treasurer,Christian Chukwu Owo and the Administrative Officer,Mrs Anne Eke Agwu,before Justice E.A Ngene of the State High Court,Afikpo,Ebonyi State,on a 15 {Fifteen} count charge of conspiracy and stealing of public funds totalling over N25,000,000.00 {Twenty Five Million Naira Only}.Okoroafor and his alleged co-conspiratorts were said to have at various times between 2013 and 2015 raised vouchers for payments ranging from contract awards,salaries and independence day celebrations in the names of staff of the development centre who denied ever authorized such vouchers nor received such funds.Investigation into the matter which was reported by Center for Prevention of Corruption and Human Right Initiatives and some staff of the development centre revealed that the accused persons padded their salaries and that of other staff above the approved limits with the connivance of a staff of the bank where the local Government is domiciled.The sum of N16,000,000 and N8,000,000 were at different times traced to the accused person's account which upon interrogation,they could not justify the source.

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