The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kaduna Zonal Office, on January 24, 2019 arraigned one David Eseli before Justice Mohammed Tukur of the Kaduna State High Court, on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence and employment scam.
According to the report by EFCC, David Eseli was arrested by operatives of the EFCC acting on a petition by one Mrs. Hauwa Musa, who alleged that sometime in November 2017, she was called via a “strange” phone number, which the person later disguised as a staff of Guarantee Trust Bank, GTB and advertised a job at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp, NSCDC, for her relatives.
She further alleged that she was persuaded to succumb to the request and thereafter informed her husband (Musa Ibrahim), and she was instructed to furnished names of her candidates which she did. She then paid the sum of N365, 000 and additional money which David Eseli claimed was for medicals, training, accommodation and feeding through different account names and numbers.
one David Eseli pleaded “not guilty” to the charge.
In his ruling, Justice Tukur ordered that the defendant should be remanded in prison, and adjourned the case to February 28, 2019 for “hearing