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

REMAIN PEACEFUL, CALM - BODEJO TO FULANIS IN NIGER .(PHOTOS).


REMAIN PEACEFUL, CALM - BODEJO TO FULANIS IN NIGER 


The National President Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Dr Abdullahi Bello Bodejo has advised fulani's in Niger state to continue to live in peace with one another and desist from taken the law into their hands by always allowing security agencies to do their job of fishing out culprits in a professional manner.

 This according to him is the best way of contributing their quota positively to the sustainance and promotion of lasting peace in the state and Nigeria.

He gave the advice while addressing Newsmen in Lapai Local Government Area of Niger state after visiting the twelve year old Namadi Mohammed at the General hospital Lapai whose hands were allegedly cut off by some vigilante members while rearing cattle few days ago.

Dr Abdullahi Bello Bodejo explained that Niger state Governor Alh Mohammed Umar Bago who is presently in Saudi Arabia with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on an official visit has informed the National President in a telephone interview that the state government will not allow perpetrators of such henious act to go unpunished.

According to him he will also involved his lawyers in getting justice for the tenager to serve as deterrent to others while calling for the scrapping of any vigilante organisation in Nigeria that is formed without following the due process. 

Alh Bello Bodejo who expressed disgust over way and manner fulani's are in most cases branded bandits and kidnappers in Nigeria however said plans have reached an advance stage by the Miyetti Allah Kautal Kore and Niger state government to organise summit towards changing such negative perception in addition to also involving traditional institutions in the crusade.

In his remarks Chairman Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners NARTO who also serve as fulani elder Alh Hassan Shiroro described the action by the vigilante as callous and called on security agencies to redouble efforts in fishing out perpetrators of this ungodly act.

Chairman Niger state chapter of Miyetti Allah Kautal Kore Alh Abubakar Shiroro commended the National President for his exemplary leadership and appealed to the fulani's in the state to be calm while security operatives take charge of this matter to it's logical conclusion. 
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