Oguibe Promise Nkwachukwu
By Victory Oghene
An accountant, Oguibe Promise Nkwachukwu, has spent his fourth night in Kirikiri prison Lagos over N200 million alleged fraud.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned
Mr Nkwachukwu, who worked as an accountant with Travelstar Web Logistics Limited, on a 13-count charge of stealing funds entrusted to him by the company.
According to the EFCC, the defendant, while acting as the alter ego of Wifamapp Royalty Global Limited, dishonestly converted sums belonging to Travelstar Web Logistics Limited for personal use.
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One of the counts reads:
“That you, Oguibe Promise Nkwachukwu, being the alter ego of Wifamapp Royalty Global Limited and Wifamapp Royalty Global Limited, being a company incorporated in Nigeria sometime in March, 2020, within the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court, dishonestly converted to your own use the sum of $36,000 (Thirty-Six Thousand United States Dollars), property of Travelstar Web Logistics Limited entrusted to you as the company’s accountant, thereby committed an offence of stealing, contrary to Section 280(1)(b) and (2)(f) and 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”
Another count alleged that between January and July 2018, the defendant converted the sum of $156,000 (One Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand United States Dollars) belonging to the same company, also in contravention of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to all the charges when read to him.
Following the plea, prosecution counsel A.A. Usman applied for a trial date and asked the court to remand the defendant in a Correctional Centre pending trial.
However, defence counsel Kelvin C. Uzozie notified the court of a pending bail application on behalf of his client and prayed that the defendant be remanded in EFCC custody instead of a Correctional Centre.
Justice Oshodi, after listening to both parties, adjourned the case to October 17, 2025 for hearing of the bail application.
He ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre in Lagos pending the determination of his bail.
