One Pastor Glory Okeoghene Aberefa and Reverend Vincent Okpogo have been sentenced to 16 and 10 years imprisonment respectively by Justice F. N. Azinge of the Delta State High Court sitting in Otor-Udu for allegedly stealing 32 million Naira.

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Pastor Aberefa and Reverend Okpogo were convicted for going under the guise of running a financial company, Mustard Seed Micro Investment Limited, and defrauded dozens of unsuspected members of the public of millions of naira.

The first defendant, Pastor Aberefa was sentenced to one year imprisonment on each of the 16 counts, while the second defendant, Reverend Okpogo was sentenced to one year imprisonment each on count seven to 16, all of which run consecutively.

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EFCC stated in a write up said the convicts were prosecuted by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on 16-count charges, bordering on conspiracy to steal and stealing, contrary to Section 516 and 390 (9) of the Criminal Code, CAP 21, Vol 1, Laws of Delta State of Nigeria, 2006.

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A team of detectives, led by the Divisional Police Officer, Ikeja Police Station, CSP Gbenga Ogunsakin, has arrested one Miss Deborah Nwachukwu, 23, for allegedly stealing a Toyota jeep, cash and items worth N1m.

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DSP Bala Elkana, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, said this in a statement released to newsmen on Sunday.

According to Elkana, the suspect is an indigene of Abia State and resided at No. 19 Irewale Street, Ipade area of Lagos.

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He further explained that Nwachukwu stole the Toyota Jeep, two Samsung S10, wristwatch, designer perfume and some cash from one Mr. Patrick at MKO Street, off Toyin Street, Ikeja.

“Patrick (the complainant) met Nwachukwu at Shoprite in Ikeja selling some cleaning products for a company around the shopping mall where he invited her to help render home service in cleaning his house for him.

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“They agreed for N20,000 as payment for her service. However, Nwachukwu said the invitation was not just for cleaning of the house but for sexual reasons.

“After the sexual intercourse, she noticed that the complainant was asleep and she quickly took his exotic wristwatches, some cash and his Jeep and escaped from the house after locking him up in the room.

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“The suspect has been charged to court and remanded in correctional custody,” the DSP said.

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A 39-year-old man, Olakunle Agbaje, has been arrested for stealing a 2-month old baby boy at Odukoya Street, Ogun State in Nigeria.

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The baby’s mother was sleeping in her room when the suspect entered and took her baby from her side.

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Fortunately, while Agbaje was tiptoeing out of the room, the baby’s mother, Mrs. Taiwo woke up and raised an alarm, after which the incident was reported to the police who quickly thronged to the scene and arrested the suspect.

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According to Sahara Reporters, a man by name Henry Godspower has been sentenced by a court in Benin, Edo State in Nigeria, to three months imprisonment for stealing church offering.

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Prosecutor of the case, ASP Patrick Agbonifo, said the suspect broke into the Greater Liberation Ministry Church located on James Watt Road in Benin and escaped with the church offering.

Godspower was said to have stolen N3,520 from the church and pleaded guilty to the charge when brought against him in court.

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After hearing the case, the Magistrate Akhere sentenced the suspect to three months imprisonment without an option of fine.

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A Bank of Ghana (BoG) report on banking fraud in the country has revealed that there is a growing number of employees of banks either stealing from customers or from their employers.

The report prepared by the Financial Stability Department of the Bank of Ghana stated that in 2018, more than 2,170 cases of fraud were reported out of which 1,239 cases were committed by banks’ staff in the form of suppressing cash or deposits from customers.

The 2018 figure of employees’ fraud reported by the central bank shows a 78 percent increase in the 697 cases reported a year earlier.

Commenting on the rising incident of fraud committed by banks’ employees, the central bank noted that: “It is important to stress that about 99 percent of the fraud cases reported as suppression of cash and deposits were perpetrated by staff (either contract or permanent) of the financial institutions.”

“The alarming involvement of staff in the perpetration of fraud in the banking sector calls for significant reforms in the recruitment, remuneration, and disengagement of persons that are engaged by financial institutions.”

According to the Financial Stability Report, the involvement of the employees of these financial institutions led to the loss of about GH¢19.1 million in the year under review.

In all the Financial institutions lost GH¢44.4 million to all forms of fraud in 2018 while employees related fraud accounted for 42 percent of the total losses.

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