EFCC Arraigns Yaba Tech Student For N20m Internet Fraud

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, on Monday June 15, 2015, arraigned one
Ebiechina Chikeluba aka Lisa T. Jackson, before
Justice O. A Ipaye of the High Court of Lagos
State, Ikeja on a 17-count charge bordering on
obtaining money by false pretence, personation,
forgery and using false document.
According to the EFCC, Chikeluba, who met his
victim on Facebook, using the false identity of
Lisa T. Jackson, a United States citizen, had been
making monetary demands of his victims, using
various guises.
In one such instances, the EFCC said sometime
in March 2013, the suspect obtained a total sum
of £54,324.59 (Fifty Four Thousand, Three
Hundred and Twenty Four Pounds, Fifty Nine
Pence) from one K. Oaks, through Western
Union, on the pretext that he was an American
woman dealing in Gold in Nigeria and needed
money to increase her capital.
The unsuspecting victim paid the sum, having
already agreed to married Chikeluba, who posed
as Lisa.
However, when the charges against him were
read, he pleaded not guilty.
Following his not guilty plea, the prosecution
counsel, Andrew Akoja, asked for a trial date
and prayed the court to remand the defendant in
prison custody.
The defence counsel, Chijioke Agu, informed the
court that he has already filed an application for
bail and asked to be allowed to move his
application.
However, Justice Ipaye adjourned the matter to
July 20, 2015 for hearing of bail application and
ordered that the defendant be remanded in
custody.
Chikeluba, 21, a student of Federal Science and
Technical College Yaba, Lagos was arrested by
the operatives of the EFCC on February 24, 2015
for allegedly swindling K. Oaks, a UK citizen, of
£54,000 (equivalent of N20m).




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