Commission, EFCC on December 18, 2018 arraigned one Shinum 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.
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