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

IGP DEPLOYS TACTICAL OPERATION UNIT TO AREPO/IBAFOR TO FLUSH OUT ARMED CRIMINALS.{READ}.

                      The Inspector General of Police,Ag.IGP Ibrahim Idris,NPM,mni on June 30,2016 deployed a Tactical Operation Unit,comprising the Police Mobile Force,the Counter-Terrorism Unit with the back-up of an Air Surveillance Team to flus out vandals and other criminal elements operating in Arepo and Ibafor areas of Ogun state.IGP Ibrahim Idris said the deployment of the Unit tp Arepo/Ibafor is to ensure that normalcy returns to the areas in record time.The IGP also said the Nigeria Police Force will not watch any criminal group or groups take the law into their hands,he therefore authorized the Unit to deal decisively with anyone who constitutes himself an enemy of the State,while asking law-abiding citizens of the area to return home and go about their normal businesses.I would be recalled that Arepo and Ibafor in Ogun state have for sometimes now been in the news for the wrong reasons due to anti-social behaviours of miscreants.In another development,the Nigeria Police Force has arrested one Aloysius Ebiniko,said to be the kingpin of the armed gang that abducted and murdered Col.Samaila Inusa on March 27,2016 in Kaduna,Kaduna state.The arrest of Aloysius Ebiniko was made possible as a result of a credible technical intelligence employed by the Police after a confessional statement of a member of the gang earlier arrested.Aloysius Ebiniko will soon be arraigned in court as those earlier arrested in connection with the crime had been arraigned and are remanded in Prison custody.
DCP DON AWUNAH,fsi
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FORCE HEADQUARTERS,
ABUJA.                                                                                                                                                                

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