{"id":264327,"date":"2015-03-20T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/efcc-arrests-reps-candidate-over-n142m-scam\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T15:48:00","slug":"efcc-arrests-reps-candidate-over-n142m-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/03\/20\/efcc-arrests-reps-candidate-over-n142m-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Arrests Reps Candidate Over N142m Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-280990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.informationng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/02.jpg\" alt=\"0\" width=\"261\" height=\"240\" \/>Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said on Thursday that it had arrested a candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP),\u00a0 Miss Oluwametomi Adetokunbo Adisa, for alleged N142 million scam.<\/p>\n<p>This is contained in a statement signed by the commission\u2019s spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who is vying for a House of Representative seat, would be charged to court as soon as investigation was concluded, the EFCC spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Uwujaren alleged that the 37-year-old suspect obtained building materials worth N142 million from one businessman, Alhaji Isa Bello, by false pretense.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the suspect fraudulently obtained the materials in disguise of servicing a supply contract she had with a construction company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe materials comprised 9,900 bags of cement, 381 tonnes of imported iron rods and 468 tonnes of local iron rods\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Uwujaren said the petitioner alleged that the suspect issued two post-dated cheques of N40 million each which were returned unpaid.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the petitioner further alleged that all efforts to make the suspect pay up the balance\u00a0proved abortive. (NAN)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic and Financial Crimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}