Student Of ESUT Takes EFCC To Court After Being Accused Of Ten Million Naira Scam

Information reaching the DailyschoolNews editorial team today, is that a university student, by name, Ifeanyi Okoye, has on the 21st of January, dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to a Federal High Court in Enugu for an alleged character assassination.

Mr Peter Okoye who is a student of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), had filed the suit, alleging character assassination and a breach of his fundamental human rights by EFCC.

According to the information on our News desk, the counsel to the plaintiff, Mr Ralph Nnamu, said that his client was arrested by the EFCC at a cyber café where he was sourcing information for his postgraduate project.
The Plaintiff, Nnamu said that on January, the 21st, 2011, operatives of the EFCC stormed the cyber café and whisked his client away to an unknown destination without any interaction between them.
The plaintiff also said that the operatives alleged that his client defrauded one foreign firm located in London, by the name, Global Ventures, of a whooping sum of N10 million.
According to the plaintiff, he said and we quote:
“It is so unfortunate that up till date, the EFCC is yet to furnish this court with clear evidence showing that my client truly committed the crime he was accused of.
My client has been going to the cyber café for his project work since his enrolment as a post graduate student.
“Sincerely, i don’t know or have an idea, on where the EFCC sourced their information which they relied upon to prosecute my client,” the plaintiff said.

The counsel to the EFCC, Mr Ethelbert Onunze, said it was a case that did not require much legal tussle.
According to Mr Ethelbert, he said that the case was simple and straight forward, as far as cases associated with cyber crime were concerned.
He said that the operatives of the EFCC acted on an alert by a concerned citizen who had been furnishing the commission with the activities of the plaintiff at the cyber café on a weekly basis.
According to him, the accused has heinously defrauded the foreign firm of the sum of N10million, which he claim that he will supply them with raw materials for the production of textiles.
It was also at this point of collecting the sum of N700,000 meant for the transportation of the said raw materials that the EFCC arrested him.

According to Mr Ethebert, the accused never worked or dealt with any firm here in Nigeria that was associated with the production of textile materials.
While the presiding judge, Justice M.L. Shuaibu, adjourned the case till Oct. 9 for further hearing.

Till then, who do you think will win this case?
Plus who is right and wrong?
Your input is highly welcomed.

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