Friday 18 October 2013

Ex-council Boss Arraigned For Attempting To Bribe His Way Back To Office



An Umuahia Chief Magistrate’s Court has
remanded Chief Appolos Alozie, a former
transition committee chairman of Aba North
Council in prison, for allegedly offering
bribe to influence his re-appointment as
the council boss. Remanded in prison custody alongside
Alozie for the alleged offence, were other
persons said to be members of the
syndicate that defrauded him. They were being tried for alleged case of
advance fee fraud, otherwise known as 419. Sacked last year by Governor Theodore Orji
after about one month in office as the
transition committee chairman of Aba
North, Alozie was arraigned for allegedly
offering N4.45 million to one Uche Stanley
and his group, who were said to have claimed that they would influence Governor
Orji to re-appoint him as council chairman. Members of the said syndicate include
Uche Ogbusuo, 35; Henry Madubuike, 37;
Joseph Imo Kalu, 36 and one Agwu Ukariwo,
now at large. The court ordered that they be remanded at
the Federal Prison Afara Umuahia till
October 28 and November 4, for Alozie and
the suspects accused for advance fee
fraud, respectively.

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