Former Presidential Candidate Arraigned By EFCC Over #66m Scam.

A former presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, Chief Ambrose Owuru was arraigned before Justice Suleiman Aliyu of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt today by anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 5-count charge bordering on uttering, forgery and obtaining money by false pretence.

Owuru allegedly obtained the sum of sixty-six million naira (N66,000,000.00) from one Ikechukwu Eze through a phony land deal. The complainant alleged that sometime in March 2011, he paid the sum of sixty million naira (N60m) through Skye Bank, Olu Obansanjo Road branch, Port Harcourt, to Barrister Owuru for a property located at Nzimiro Street, Amadi flat in Port Harcourt.


In the process of taking possession of the property, it was discovered that a portion had been sold to another person. At this point, Barrister Owuru allegedly asked for another N6m to settle the other buyer, one Chief Austin Omire, which Eze allegedly obliged him.
He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

However, the case has been adjourned till the 13^th of August 2013 for hearing on the bail application and commencement of trial as the court ordered that the accused person be remanded in the EFCC custody.

Culled from Channelstv