Niger Delta
Ex-Military Officer, Others In Court Over N21.1m Fraud
A retired Army Colonel Emmanuel Nebolisa (75), John Worlu (42) and others now at large, have been arraigned at a Port Harcourt Magistrate Court on a four-count charge of conspiracy to defraud the Adoration Family Ministries incorporated of its landed property worth over N21.1 million.
According to a charge sheet made available to The Tide in Port Harcourt, the accused had between March and April 2017 at Igba, Mile 2 Igwuruta Eneka road, Igwuruta, in the Port Harcourt Magisterial District, willfully and unlawfully with the intent to defraud, removed beacon pillar used as survey boundary marks valued at one million, one hundred thousand naira (1,100,000.00) property of Adoration Family Ministries Incorporation and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 457 of the Criminal code cap 37.vol.11 laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999.
The charge sheet also said that the accused persons and others now at large on the same date and place did conduct themselves in a manner likely to cause the breach of the peace by entering into a land which is in the actual and peaceable possession of Adoration Family Ministries Incorporation and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 81 of the criminal code cap 37 vol. II laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999.
Other charges include; willfully and unlawfully damaging ten plots of the land and erecting concrete fence on the five plots of the land valued at twenty million naira (20,000,000), property of the ministries as well as partitioning the said land to Adoration Family Ministries Incorporated in the year 2012 and reselling same plots to one Chief Gabriel Igwe in the year 2017 thereby committing an offence punishable under section 249 ? of the criminal code cap 37 vol. II laws of Rivers State of Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the case has been adjourned to the 5th of June, 2017for the defence counsel address.
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