Reported by: Ijeoma G | Edited by: Henry Owen | Stone Reporter News
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, arraigned lawyer Victor Azubike Awah and his company, Sparkan Ives Limited, on Thursday, October 23, 2025, over an alleged N27 million fraud. The arraignment took place before Justice O.A. Okunuga of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja.
Awah faces a six-count charge including stealing, obtaining money by false pretence, using false documents, and issuance of dud cheques. According to the charge sheet, Awah allegedly defrauded Mrs. Onwuekwe Chioma Genevieve by claiming to have a plot of land for sale, a claim the prosecution asserts was false. One of the counts reads:
"That you, Victor Azubike Awah, sometime between October 2024 and February 2025 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of 27,000,000.00 (Twenty Seven Million Naira) from Mrs. Onwuekwe Chioma Genevieve under the false pretence that you have a plot of land advertised for sale, which pretence you knew or ought to have known to be false thereby committed an offence of Obtaining Money by False Pretence contrary to Section 1(1) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006."
The defendant pleaded not guilty to all charges and represented himself during the proceedings. Prosecution counsel, A.M. Dambuwa, requested a trial date and sought that Awah be remanded in a correctional facility.
Justice Okunuga adjourned the case to December 17 and 18, 2025, for the hearing of the bail application and the commencement of the trial. The judge also ordered that Awah be remanded in EFCC custody pending further proceedings.
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