The
Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC on December 18, 2018 arraigned one Shinum Adinga before Justice
Muhammed Muazu of the Kaduna State High Court on a two-count charge
bordering on criminal breach of trust and obtaining by false
pretence. Adinga had deceived his victim into parting with N4,050,000 in
instalments in the belief that it was being invested in a ginger
farming business, which turned out to be false.One of the counts reads:
“That you, Shonum Adinga, sometimes in 2016 in Kaduna within the Kaduna
Judicial Division of the High Court with intent to defraud, did obtain
the sum of N3,830,000 (Three Million Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand
Naira) by way of instalment payment from one Peter Onyeka Sunday also
called Peter Eze through your wife’s account Margret Shunom, domiciled
with Diamond Bank under the false pretence that the said money will be
invested for ginger business, which will generate profits on the said
amount, a pretence you knew was false and you there by committed an
offence contrary to Section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other
Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of
the same Act”.He pleaded “not guilty” when the charges were read to him.
Prosecuting counsel, Onyeka Eze, asked the court for a date for trial
to commence. Defence counsel, Y. Makarfi, however, urged the court to
grant his client bail. While adjourning to January 29, 2019, Justice
Muazu, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N1million with one
surety in like sum who must be a public servant not below grade level 16
with a landed property within the jurisdiction of the court covered by a
Certificate of Occupancy.Fake farmer arrested for N4m fraud in Kaduna State (Photos)
The
Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC on December 18, 2018 arraigned one Shinum Adinga before Justice
Muhammed Muazu of the Kaduna State High Court on a two-count charge
bordering on criminal breach of trust and obtaining by false
pretence. Adinga had deceived his victim into parting with N4,050,000 in
instalments in the belief that it was being invested in a ginger
farming business, which turned out to be false.One of the counts reads:
“That you, Shonum Adinga, sometimes in 2016 in Kaduna within the Kaduna
Judicial Division of the High Court with intent to defraud, did obtain
the sum of N3,830,000 (Three Million Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand
Naira) by way of instalment payment from one Peter Onyeka Sunday also
called Peter Eze through your wife’s account Margret Shunom, domiciled
with Diamond Bank under the false pretence that the said money will be
invested for ginger business, which will generate profits on the said
amount, a pretence you knew was false and you there by committed an
offence contrary to Section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other
Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of
the same Act”.He pleaded “not guilty” when the charges were read to him.
Prosecuting counsel, Onyeka Eze, asked the court for a date for trial
to commence. Defence counsel, Y. Makarfi, however, urged the court to
grant his client bail. While adjourning to January 29, 2019, Justice
Muazu, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N1million with one
surety in like sum who must be a public servant not below grade level 16
with a landed property within the jurisdiction of the court covered by a
Certificate of Occupancy.
