The police on Thursday arraigned the Chairman of Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Uche Ogah, and an ex-employee of UBA, Deji Somoye, before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for alleged fraud.
The oil firm and the bank were also joined in three counts bordering on forgery and conspiracy preferred against the defendants by the police.
The police said Ogah allegedly forged a Memorandum of Understanding between Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited and Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited sometime in March 2011.
He and others said to be at large were also accused of forging the signature of one Mrs Bridget Adeosun. Punch reports that the alleged forgery was reportedly committed in Ikeja, Lagos.
The police also alleged that the bank aided Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited to open an account in the name of Mut-Hass Petroleum to perpetrate a fraud without applying its internal control procedures in the opening of the account.
The police had claimed that UBA allowed the said account to be opened sometime in 2011 at its regional office in Palmgrove, Lagos, in breach of the provisions of the Financial Institutions Act 2004.
The defendants were brought before a Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Kikelomo Ayeye, by a police prosecutor, ASP Henry Obiazi. He told the court that the offences contravened sections 363 (3)(u), 408 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
When the charges were read out, the defendants pleaded not guilty and were admitted to bail in the sum of N200,000 each with one surety each in like sum.
The case was adjourned till August 4, 2016, for trial.
Lol.......Naija politics at work here
ReplyDeleteJust passing by
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ReplyDeleteAnother kasala again.
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ReplyDeleteAbeg which kind country be this?u can not find one honest man,this is really sad.everyone has a past,na whao.
ReplyDeleteSo funny. Declared governor days ago and arrested for forgery.
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ReplyDeleteWhy this is coming up , after his new appointment, I hope this is not plots to spoil his name and Image ?
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ReplyDelete#Olu,can you see?
POLICE ALLEGED MR.UCHE VIOLATED THE INTERNAL CONTROL PROCEDURES OF THE BANK AND I WANT TO ASK HOW DOES A CUSTOMER DO THIS OR THE POLICE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS TERMED INTERNAL CONTROL PROCEDURES OR HAS HE NOT OPEN AN WITH BANK BEFORE THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND BECAUSE IF YOU FAILED TO MEET UP WHAT TAKES FOR CORPORATE OR INDIVIDUAL TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT WITH BANK, BANK OFFICIALS WILL DEFINITELY TURN YOU BACK. PLEASE INVESTIGATE VERY WELL BEFORE COMING TO THE COURT.
ReplyDeleteAt least no way to hide under immunity
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ReplyDeletecorrect me if i am right.i have warned my children thus:1.never you enter into politics.2.never you drag or fight for landed property with anybody.3.as a prince, never fight over a chieftaincy title with anybody even if it is genuinely yours and finally;4.never you look at another person's wife/husband.if you observe these four, you will live not only long but well and in peace.
ReplyDeleteNever I do anything, period!
ReplyDeleteJust go die..
Never I do anything, period!
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