Former Presidential Aspirant Declared Wanted By EFCC

   

The Economic and Financial Crimes

Commission have declared

Emmanuel Osita Okereke wanted.

Emmanuel Osita Okereke was the

former presidential aspirant on the

platform of the Nigeria Liberation

Party (NLP) and he’s been wanted

for jumping bail.

Emmanuel is also the Director-

General of the National Task Force to

Combat Illegal Importation of Small

Arms, Ammunition and Light

Weapons, (NATFORCE)

A statement by the EFCC

spokesperson, Wilson

Uwujaren,states that the former

presidential aspirant was being

prosecuted on six-counts of

impersonation, forgery and

obtaining by false pretence.

He was arraigned on November 21,

2013, before Justice J. Y. Tukur, of

the FCT High Court, Apo, Abuja, for

allegedly forging a document of the

Federal Government, titled:

“Restricted, Federal Government of

Nigeria, National Task Force”.

One of the charges read against him:

“That you Osita Okereke and

Ishmael Chinyere Nwogu sometime

in March, 2010 in Abuja within the

judicial Division of the High Court

of the Federal Capital Territory

knowingly had in your possession a

forged document titled

‘RESTRICTED, FEDERAL REPBLIC

OF NIGERIA, NATIONAL TASK

FORCE’ with intent to defraud,

fraudulently used same as genuine

to induce the public to believe that

your organization is an agency of

the Federal Government of Nigeria

and consequently remitted the

aggregate sum of N1,145,000 to you

through First Bank account number

3066173170 and thereby committed

an offence and punishable under

section 368 of the Penal Code Act

Cap 532 Laws of the Federation of

Nigeria (Abuja).”

Justice Tukur had granted the

request of his counsel, Kanayo

Okofar, requesting that he be

granted bail.

Okereke, who was arrested with

several incriminating items,

including bullet proof vests, has

however, jumped bail.

He allegedly operates a syndicate,

which maintains offices across the

country, defrauding unsuspecting

members of the public, by selling

recruitment forms for N5,000 in the

guise that they would be offered job

by the federal government.