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EFCC has arrested two officials of NCS over their alleged role in the incident that allowed an inmate, Hope Olusegun Aroke to perpetrate S1million fraud from prison. Nigeria EFCC PrisonOfficials Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two officials of the Nigeria Correctional Service formerly called prison, Emmanuel Oluwaniyi a Deputy Controller and Hemeson Edson Edwin over their alleged role in the incident that allowed an inmate, Hope Olusegun Aroke to perpetrate S1million fraud from prison.

Statement from the anti-graft commission stated that the first suspect, Oluwaniyi, who is the Controller, Kirikiri Maximum Prison, as well as the second suspect, Edwin, who is in charge of the medical facility, were arrested on Monday, November 25, 2019. Aroke was said to be one of the two Malaysia-based Nigerian undergraduate fraudsters arrested by the EFCC towards the end of 2012 at the 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos, following a tip-off.

 

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