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NIS Officer Who Collected N4Million Bribe From Traveller At MMIA Arraigned
NIS Officer Who Collected N4Million Bribe From Traveller At MMIA Arraigned
An official of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, 38-year-old Emeka Francis was on Wednesday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly impersonating an Interpol officer and defrauding a traveller of N3.99 million.
Prosecuting Sergeant Oluwabunmi Adeitan alleged that the defendant collected the money from Christopher Menkiti on February 19 at 12:35pm at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
She said a National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) official accosted the complainant and handed him over to a group of men claiming to be Interpol officers, who searched his luggage.
Adeitan alleged that the defendant seized the complainant’s travel documents and refused to give him back. The documents were returned after the complaint gave the defendant the N3.99 million.
She said the complainant, who was held hostage for four hours, called his mother, who transferred the cash to the defendant’s two accounts.
The prosecution named the accounts as Francis Emeka Eze, Zenith Bank, account no. 2081979756 and Francis Emeka Eze, First Bank, account no.2015859273.
The defendant pleaded not guilty.
Chief Magistrate T.A. Ojo granted him N500, 000 bail, with two sureties in the like sum.
The sureties, she said, must be employed and produce evidence of three years tax payment to the Lagos State Government.
Ojo said the sureties must be relatives of the defendant and live within the court’s jurisdiction.
The case continues on June 18.
Darlington Iyke
May 23, 2019 at 6:06 AM
Igbo kwenu
Fifelomo
May 23, 2019 at 6:53 AM
Bro Emekus bet y?
Irikefe
May 23, 2019 at 10:15 AM
“Handed him over to a group of men claiming to be Interpol officers”
Inside an international airport?
Does this country have any form of solid security at all?
Group of men inside a facility that is suppose to be secured, “world class”, claiming to be whatever they want to be.
I call that airport the perfect example of the “zoo”, name used for the country nowadays.
The unnecessary crowd inside and outside that airport is a big security risk.
Most have no reason to be at the airport, including some of the official uniform wearing “thieves”.
iron bar
May 23, 2019 at 11:39 AM
search and fish out more people. quadruplets in various uniform..customs,immigration,police and soldiers..Bad extortionists at various check points.
Gertrude
May 23, 2019 at 1:56 PM
More u c…lezz u understand
Jilo
May 23, 2019 at 5:54 PM
Accosted him for what?. What was his offense? Even he had fake traveling documents, does that mean thy should use him for making money? That is a lot of money. I don’t know how much they would have collected if they had found drugs on him.