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EFCC Docks Man over N39m Land Scam

The Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Ofonime Monday Akpan before Justice A. A. Okeke of the Federal High Court, sitting in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital on a five-count charge, bordering on forgery and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N39million. Akpan was arrested by the EFCC, following a petition from one Kenneth Ubak, Managing Director of Doodle Design Concept Nigeria Limited, alleging that the defendant duped him of N39,000,000 (Thirty Nine Million Naira) in a land matter. According to the petitioner, between April…