Discover the EFCC press proclamation underneath..
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday June 15, 2015, charged Ebiechina Chikeluba ( otherwise known as Lisa T. Jackson) before Justice O. An Ipaye of the High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja on a 17-tally charge bordering on getting cash by false misrepresentation, personation, fraud and utilizing false record. Chikeluba who met his casualty on Facebook utilizing the bogus character of, Lisa T. Jackson, a United States resident, has been making fiscal requests of his casualties, utilizing fluctuates pretenses.
In one such example in March 2013, he got an aggregate total 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 appearance that he was an American lady managing in Gold in Nigeria and required cash to build her capital.
The clueless casualty paid, having officially consented to wed the conman. At the point when the charges were read to the respondent, he argued not liable. In perspective of the supplication of the denounced, arraignment counsel, Andrew Akoja requested a trial date and supplicated the court to remand the respondent in jail authority. The barrier counsel, Chijioke Agu educated the court that he has effectively recorded an application for safeguard and requested that be permitted to move his application.
Be that as it may, Justice Ipaye dismissed the matter to July 20, 2015 for becoming aware of safeguard application and requested that the litigant be remanded in care. Chikeluba, 21, an understudy of Federal Science and Technical College Yaba, Lagos was captured by the agents of the EFCC on February 24, 2015 for purportedly cheating Oake, a UK subject, of the aggregate of £54,000 (likeness N20m