Chukwuemeka Ekwunife, businessman jailed 60yrs over N184m fraud

Chukwuemeka Ekwunife, a businessman has been sentenced by Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos to 60 years’ imprisonment over a fraud of N184,098,000. The prosecutor of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Emeka Okeogwu, on February 19, 2018, arraigned Ekwunife alongside his company on an amended eight counts bordering on stealing by fraudulent conversion, contrary to sections 278(1)(b), (2)(f) and 285(1) of the Criminal Code Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011. The charge read in part, “Chukwuemeka Ekwunife and Structured Energy Limited, on…

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