EFCC arraigns fake Magu in port harcourt
Thu Nov 28, 2019 08:42:am National
1.5K By Afam Jude Offor
Robert Terfa Swem who has been using the name of the commission’s acting chairman, to blackmail senior officials of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
According to reports, Swem was arrested by the Port Harcourt’s zonal office of the anti-graft commission and arraigned on Wednesday, November 27. It was gathered that Swem, claiming to be representing the EFCC chairman, was harassing the NDDC officials to offer him bribes to help them quash alleged investigations against them. The impostor was arraigned on three- count charges bordering on obtaining by false pretences. Swem, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges was subsequently granted bail in the sum of one million naira and one surety in like sum. He was arrested while holding a meeting with some directors of the NDDC demanding bribes to remove their names from the list of people allegedly being investigated by the EFCC.
According to reports, Swem was arrested by the Port Harcourt’s zonal office of the anti-graft commission and arraigned on Wednesday, November 27. It was gathered that Swem, claiming to be representing the EFCC chairman, was harassing the NDDC officials to offer him bribes to help them quash alleged investigations against them. The impostor was arraigned on three- count charges bordering on obtaining by false pretences. Swem, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges was subsequently granted bail in the sum of one million naira and one surety in like sum. He was arrested while holding a meeting with some directors of the NDDC demanding bribes to remove their names from the list of people allegedly being investigated by the EFCC.
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