Nigeria: Court Remands INEC Staff in Prison Over N111.5 Million Scam

11 May 2017

Abuja — Justice P. I. Ajaku of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin-City, Edo State on Thursday ordered that the duo of Uluocha Obi Brown, an Administrative Secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Delta State and Percy Okojie, a legal practitioner, be remanded in prison custody, following their arraignment before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on an eight-count amended charge, bordering on conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N111,500,000.

According to the EFCC Head of Media and Information, Wilson Uwujaren, "The defendants were arraigned for allegedly collecting the sum of N111,500,000.00k (One Hundred and Eleven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira only), as a bribe during the weeks leading to the 2015 presidential election.

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