Equity Abdulazeez Anka of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday requested the jail remand of a previous Manager of the Oyingbo, Ebute Meta branch of Diamond Bank Plc, Chinedu Oguike, over an affirmed misrepresentation of N24m.
The judge requested Oguike's jail remand not long after he was summoned on Tuesday by the police Special Fraud Unit.
The three counts squeezed as a detriment to the respondent verged on scheme, acquiring cash by false falsifications and propelled expense misrepresentation.
The police, in the charge tendered in court by their prosecutor, CSP Effiong Asuquo, blamed Oguike for getting N24m from one Ufomba Nnabugwu by erroneously speaking to that he would convey a property in the Ijegun Egba territory of Lagos to the casualty.
Oguike was additionally blamed for making false advance office reports for himself, utilizing the name of one Edwin Obele Ezeakachukwu and a property in the Ijegun Egba region of Lagos as guarantee to the burden of the casualty.
The police affirmed that he submitted the offenses at some point in 2014 in spite of the arrangements of Section 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offenses Act 2006.
The prosecutor said Oguike is at risk to discipline under Section 1(1)(a)(3) of the same Act and in addition Section 1(2)(c) of the Miscellaneous Offenses Act Cap. M17 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
Oguike, be that as it may, argued not blameworthy to the three charges taking after which the prosecutor encouraged the court to make a request remanding him in the jail care furthermore looked for a day for beginning of trial.
The protection counsel, John Itodo, in any case, made an oral application to the judge to concede his customer to safeguard, saying the matter, which had been on for around two years, was just barely pulled back from the officer court and conveyed to the Federal High Court on Tuesday morning.
"We were at the judge court at the beginning of today for continuation of hearing when the prosecutor said they were pulling back the case to refile at the Federal High Court. When we got outside, he just said we ought to continue to the Federal High Court immediately, and we didn't have any complaint about that," Itodo said.
He directed Justice Anka's consideration toward the way that the blamed had been on safeguard before the judge, including that he additionally did not default when he was before allowed an authoritative safeguard by the police.
Accordingly, be that as it may, Asuquo said he was against the oral safeguard application and encouraged the judge to arrange the litigant to record an appropriate movement for safeguard.
In his decision, Justice Anka guided the blamed to document his application for safeguard while the protection legal advisor showed that he would convey same to court on Wednesday.
While deferring till October 6, 2016 for trial, Justice Anka requested that Oguike ought to be remanded in the jail guardianship pending the determination of his safeguard application on Wednesday.
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