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Guber Polls: EFCC Arrests Over 65 Persons for Alleged Voter Inducement
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
No fewer than 65 persons were arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Saturday March 18, 2023 across the 28 states where Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections were conducted, for alleged voter inducement.
Twenty of the suspects were arrested by operatives from the Ilorin Zonal Command while 13 suspects were nabbed by operatives on election monitoring duty at the Kaduna Zonal Command. The teams monitoring the polls in the Port Harcourt Zone arrested a total of 12 people for various offences bordering on inducing voters with money to vote their preferred candidates, while the Uyo Zonal Command made 4 arrests in Calabar. The remaining suspects were arrested in Gombe, Sokoto , kebbi and Niger states.
EFCC Operatives Attacked, Injured By Alleged Vote Buyers in Kaduna
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on election monitoring duty in Kaduna State today, March 18, 2023 came under attack at School Road, Unguwan Rimi Kaduna while attempting to arrest a suspected vote buyer.
The team, working on intelligence on the alleged activities of one Kabiru Musa who was seen in an amateur video allegedly inducing eligible voters by using his phone to transfer money into their accounts as they cast their votes, had mobilized to the scene to arrest the suspect.
EFCC Docks Man for Alleged $30,000 Internet Fraud in Port Harcourt
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The Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 arraigned one Atadu Hope Iluoghene before Justice P .I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on a 13-counts charge bordering on conspiracy, impersonation, possession of fraudulent documents, obtaining by false pretence and money laundering.
One of the counts reads: "That you, Atadu Hope Iluoghene (a.k.a. Loius) and Atadu Precious Ogheneviomeze (at large) and Crossdele Edafe Kelly (large) between June 14, 2018 to March 6, 2019 , within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did transfer or convert to your use and to the use of others the aggregate sum of Ninety-Eight Million, Eight Hundred and Ninety-Four Thousand, Five Hundred Naira (N98,894,500.00) paid into your United Bank for Africa account of Atadu Hope Iluoghene (a.k.a Louis) , when you all reasonably ought to have known that the said fund formed part of the proceeds of unlawful activities, to wit: internet fraud, and commit an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011, as amended, and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act”.
Vote Buying: EFCC Intercepts Bales of Fabric in Sokoto, Makes Arrests in Port Harcourt, Kebbi, Kaduna
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, monitoring the ongoing governorship and state houses of assembly elections have intercepted bales of fabric meant for voter inducement and arrested a number of persons suspected to be involved in vote buying.
Thirty five (35) bales of fabric allegedly belonging to a principal officer of the Sokoto State House of Assembly was intercepted by the team of operatives on election monitoring assignment in Sokoto. The items have been moved to the Sokoto Zonal Command of the Commission pending the conclusion of the investigation.
Fake Kaduna Director Convicted for Forgery
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The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of one Yusuf Ahmed Lawal before Justice A.A Bello of the Kaduna State High Court on a two count charge bordering on forgery.
The convict presented a forged letter introducing himself as a Director of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development in Kaduna State to take a suspect under investigation by the Commission on bail. The letter upon investigation, was discovered to have been forged.
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