A
former presidential aspirant under the platform of the Nigeria Liberation
Party, NPL, OsitaEmmanuel Okereke, has been arrested and interrogated by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for operating an illegal task
force, running a recruitment racket, extortion and obtaining money by
false pretense.
Okereke
is allegedly the brain behind a syndicate whose members masquerade as self-
“National Task Force” set up to combat Importation and Smuggling of Small Arms,
Ammunition and Light Weapons.
The
EFCC said the syndicate, which maintains offices in different parts of the
country defrauded unsuspecting members of the public by deceitfully
selling recruitment forms to them at the cost ofN5,000 each under the pretext
of offering them employment with the federal government.
The
scam was uncovered through intelligence report, the commission said, and after
weeks of painstaking surveillance, it stormed the office of the syndicate at
the federal secretariat complex,Enugu, and arrested the zonal co-coordinator,
Obinna C. Onyekwelu, along with nine others.
The
other suspects are: Ajuani Uchenna, Emmanuel Ngwu, Kenneth Ambrose, Ogunjimi
Charles,Uzoamaka Ikwunne, Chinwe Ogbu, Onyia Fidelia, Eze Amobi and Anioke
Obinna.
The
anti-corruption agency says several documents and cash were recovered after a
search and the suspects have since been released on administrative bail after
making useful statements.
Okereke
claimed that his task force was duly recognized by the government but the
commission’s investigation showed that there was no evidence of such
registration.
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