Oyen was arraigned by the EFCC, Port Harcourt’s Zonal Office
on Thursday on a two-count charge bordering on forgery and obtaining money by
false pretence contrary to Section 1 (2) (c) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act
CAP M17 of the Revised Edition (Laws of the Federation of Nigeria) 2007, and
punishable under Section 1 (2) of the same Act.
One of the count charges read: “That you, Bisong James Oyen,
on or about 11th December, 2018 at Port Harcourt, Rivers State within the
jurisdiction of this honourable Court did forge Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission Appointment letter and delivered same to Talbort Young for employment
with intent that it may be acted upon as genuine, a pretext which you knew to
be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 (2) (c) of the
Miscellaneous Offences Act CAP M17 of the Revised Edition (Laws of the
Federation of Nigeria) 2007, and punishable under section 1 (2) of the same
Act”.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges when read to him.
In view of his plea, Prosecution Counsel, Esin-Otu Ebipade
urged the court to fix a date for the commencement of hearing. The defendant
was not represented by any Counsel.
Justice Omotosho adjourned the matter to June 18, 2019 for
hearing and ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison custody.
Oyen got into troubles when a petitioner alleged that,
sometimes in April 2018, he logged into the EFCC’s web address, in a bid to
apply for a job but could not get through the application.
However, he allegedly received a call from one Alex (Kalu
Patrick Ikechukwu), now at large, that he should send his document to an email
address: jimmyexclusive85@gmail.com and pay some money into an account number
of one of the new generation banks.
The petitioner allegedly got an assurance, after paying the
money, that he would receive an Appointment Letter that would qualify him for
training by the EFCC.
After waiting for a while without any communication from the
EFCC, he reported the matter for investigations and the results showed that
Oyen was neither a bonafide employment officer of the EFCC nor authorized to
receive any payment from any member of the public on behalf of the Commission.
In the same vein, Kelvin Ogbonna was arraigned before
Justice J. K Omotosho on a two-count charge bordering on false pretences.
One of the count charges read: “That you, Kelvin Ogbonna on
or about 12th February 2019, in Port Harcourt within the jurisdiction of this
honourable court had in your possession (your email address: barrito1@gmail.com
and ms087704@gmail.com) documents containing false pretence which you knew or
ought to know contains false pretence and thereby committed an offence contrary
to section 6 of the Advance Fee Fraud and other related offence Act 2006 and
punishable under Section 1(3). He pleaded not guilty to the charges when read
to him.
In view of his plea, Prosecuting Counsel, Esin-Otu Ebipade
prayed the court to fix a date for commencement of trial. However, defense
counsel, B. M Mgbamoka did not oppose the prayers of the prosecuting counsel
nor sued for the bail of his client.
Justice Omotosho adjourned the matter to June 18, 2019 and
ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison custody for commencement of
trial.
Ogbonna’s troubles started when the EFCC acted on some
intelligence concerning his alleged impersonation, possession of scam documents
and internet fraud and arrested him accordingly.
However, investigation showed that he was in possession of
one apple iphone 6S and Hewlett Packard (HP) Pavilion Laptop, all of which
contained false documents.
Upon interrogation, Ogbonna confessed that he was involved
in internet fraud by using a fake FaceBook profile with the name Fredrick
Keefer and Google hangout accounts with the usernames barrito1@gmail.com and
ms087704@gmail.com to defraud his victims via scammed mails.
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