The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, arraigned one Heart Chidozie Obum on a five-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and stealing to the tune of N72,689,000 (Seventy-Two Million, Six Hundred and Eighty Nine Naira) and £31,200 (Thirty-one Thousand, Two Hundred Pound)
before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos.
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Obum allegedly promised to help the petitioner get a certificate of sponsorship to travel abroad.
He, however, allegedly reneged on his promise after collecting money from the petitioner…