Fake Farmer Nabbed
Fake Farmer Nabbed for Collecting N4m from
Victim
The Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC on December 18, 2018 arraigned one Shunom Adinga
before Justice Muhammed Muazu of the Kaduna State High Court on a
two-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust and
obtaining by false pretence.
Adinga had deceived his victim into parting with N4,050,000 in
instalments in the belief that it was being invested in a ginger
farming business, which turned out to be false.
One of the counts reads: “That you, Shonum Adinga, sometimes in
2016 in Kaduna within the Kaduna Judicial Division of the High
Court with intent to defraud, did obtain the sum of N3,830,000
(Three Million Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand Naira) by way of
instalment payment from one Peter Onyeka Sunday also called Peter
Eze through your wife’s account Margret Shunom, domiciled with
Diamond Bank under the false pretence that the said money will be
invested for ginger business, which will generate profits on the
said amount, a pretence you knew was false and you there by
committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) (a) of the Advance
Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable
under Section 1(3) of the same Act”.
He pleaded “not guilty” when the charges were read to him.
Prosecuting counsel, Onyeka Eze, asked the court for a date for
trial to commence.
Defence counsel, Y. Makarfi, however, urged the court to grant
his client bail.
While adjourning to January 29, 2019, Justice Muazu, granted the
defendant bail in the sum of N1million with one surety in like sum
who must be a public servant not below grade level 16 with a landed
property within the jurisdiction of the court covered by a
Certificate of Occupancy.
Tony Orilade
Ag. Head, Media & Publicity