The judge, Mohammed Liman, ordered the remand of the defendants at a custodial centre after their arraignment on a seven-count charge of fraud preferred by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission .The defendants are charged alongside one Isaac Okpala, described as deceased.The anti-graft agency alleged that they fraudulently procured a Barclays Bank cheque for £2.
The EFCC also accused the defendants of forging a Barclays Bank cheque dated December 29, 1994 for £2.556 billion made payable to Gladstone Kukoyi and Associates, purporting the said cheque to be meant for foreign investment in the construction of three refineries and petrochemical complex in Nigeria.
Good for them. Something positive is happening in this country.