{"id":7659,"date":"2013-08-03T17:39:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/hdp-presidential-candidate-docked-for-alleged-n60m-fraud-2\/"},"modified":"2013-08-03T17:39:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:39:47","slug":"hdp-presidential-candidate-docked-for-alleged-n60m-fraud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/hdp-presidential-candidate-docked-for-alleged-n60m-fraud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HDP Presidential Candidate Docked For Alleged N60m Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party (HDP), Ambrose Owuru, has been arraigned at the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt for alleged N60 million fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n

  Counsel to the EFCC, Richard Ewor, said that Owuru was arraigned by EFCC over charges of fraud, alteration and forgery of land documents.<\/p>\n

  Owuru, who was the presidential candidate in the 2007 and 2011 presidential elections, was alleged to have defrauded one Ikechukwu Eze of N60 million for a property in Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n

  The EFCC had in Suit No: FHC\/PH\/151c\/2013, reeled out a five-count charge bordering on fraud, alteration and forgery of land documents for defrauding Eze.<\/p>\n

  The legal practitioner-turned politician, according to the anti-corruption agency was alleged to have defrauded Eze of N60 million on the pretext of selling four plots of land located at Plot 44A, Amadi Layout, Port Harcourt, to the unsuspecting Eze.<\/p>\n

  The EFCC accused Owuru of altering a forged Certificate of Occupancy dated March 20, 1990, and Survey Plan also dated December 19, 1989, purportedly approved by the Rivers State Land and Survey.<\/p>\n

  The charge preferred against Owuru read: \u201cThat you, Ambrose Owuru \u2018M\u2019 on or about the 7th day of March 2011 at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable Court, with intent to defraud, did obtain the sum of sixty million naira (N60,000,000) from Ikechukwu Eze on the pretence that you have sold to him four plots of land situate at Plot 44A, Amadi Layout-Port Harcourt, a pretext to which you knew to be false and thereby 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.<\/p>\n

  \u201cThat you, Ambrose Owuru \u2018M\u2019 on or about the 7th day of March 2011 at Port Harcourt, Rivers State within the jurisdiction of the Honourable Court, did make a document titled \u201cCERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY\u201d dated 20th March 1990 purportedly issued by the Rivers State Land and Survey covering Plot 44A Amadi Layout Port Harcourt, Rivers State with the intent that it may be acted upon as genuine 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

  Owuru who was present in court pleaded not guilty to the five-count charges, offences punishable under Section 1 (1) (a) and 1 (3) the Advance Free Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.<\/p>\n

  Counsel to the accused, Mr. Geofery Joseph, made oral application for his bail but the presiding Judge, Justice Suleiman Aliu, rejected the oral bail application and requested for a formal bail application.<\/p>\n

  Due to the failure of Owuru\u2019s lawyer to produce a formal bail application, Justice Aliu ordered that he should be remanded in EFCC custody and adjourned till August 13, to hear his bail application.<\/p>\n

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