Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

EFCC Presents Witness in N17.6m Fraud Trial

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, September 26, 2019, presented its first witness against Isaac Fayose, who is standing trial for advance fee fraud before Justice Binta Muhammad of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Lugbe. At the resumed trial today, the prosecution counsel, Jude Obozuwa, presented Joe Onyiuke as witness. He told the court that he met Isaac Fayose sometime in 2009 and that he later visited him visited in his office and told him about a project he was about to start. “Then I was working on classified assets as regional head. He took me…