{"id":9116,"date":"2022-06-18T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2022-06-18T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T06:43:10","slug":"efcc-re-arraigns-lagos-prophet-for-alleged-n54-7m-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9116","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Re-arraigns Lagos Prophet For Alleged N54.7m Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The EFCC on Thursday, June 16, 2022 re-arraigned one Cletus Ilongwo, a self-acclaimed Lagos-based prophet, before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on an amended seven-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of N54.7 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The defendant was first arraigned on November 5, 2018 on an 11-count charge to which he pleaded &#8220;not guilty&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His victim, one Obinna Ezenwaka, a former employee of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Fidelity Bank Plc, alleged that he was introduced to the defendant sometime in 2015 when he was seeking solution to his &#8220;spiritual problem&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, Ilongwo allegedly lured Ezenwaka to part with N59,760,000 under the guise that he would use it to purchase a property located at Diamond Estate, Festac Town, with the assurance<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>that they would resell it to a Chinese company at the cost of N150million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The defendant, however, reneged on his promise prompting him to petition the EFCC. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For details of this and other stories visit our website: www.efcc.gov.ng<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EFCC on Thursday, June 16, 2022 re-arraigned one Cletus Ilongwo, a self-acclaimed Lagos-based prophet, before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on an amended seven-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of N54.7 million. The defendant was first arraigned on November 5, 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75,73,5261],"class_list":["post-9116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-efcc","tag-fraud","tag-lagos-prophet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9118,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions\/9118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}