The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on November 4, 2013, arraigned
Madu Garba, a storekeeper with PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc depot, Yola Adamawa
State, before Justice
Bilikisu B. Aliyu of the Federal High Court, Yola, on a 2-count charge for
alleging defrauding the company through fictitious invoicing to the tune of N8,
435,725
His
arraignment followed a petition by PZ.
Investigation
revealed that Madu Garba used the invoice of two distributors, Yalisco
Electrical Services and Gassol and Sons Limited to cover up some missing goods
in PZ Cussons warehouse where he is storekeeper, thereby defrauding his
employers.
One
of the charges reads: “That you Madu Garba, being a store keeper at PZ Cussons
Nigeria Limited, sometimes in September 2009 in Yola Adamawa State, within the
jurisdiction of this court, Federal High Court of Nigeria, did took several
electronic goods worth N4,027,090 by fraudulently using the account of Yalisco
Electrical Services Limited, a customer, without his knowledge and converted
the goods for your own use, thereby committed an offence contrary to Section
383 (1)of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C38, laws of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria (LFN) 2004 and punishable under Section 390 (9) of the same Act”.
Garba
pleaded not guilty to the charge, a development which prompted the prosecution
counsel, Abubakar Aliyu, to ask for commencement of trial. The court remanded
the accused person in prison custody till November 21, 2013 when trial will
commence.
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