The Economic and Financial Crimes Commissionn (EFCC), Abuja Zonal Command has arraigned one Akpu Abraham Akuma before Justice F.A Aliyu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja on a one count charge bordering on issuance of a dud cheque.
He was arraigned on July 6, July 2022.
The charge reads, “that you, Akpu Abraham Akuma sometime in 2019 at Abuja within the Abuja Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory did issue a First Bank Plc cheque with serial number 00306955 dated 30th April, 2019 in the sum of N3,200,000 (Three Million Two Hundred Thousand Naira only) to Aso Savings and Loans Plc which when presented on the 17th day of May, 2019 was returned unpaid on the grounds that no sufficient funds were standing to the credit of the drawer as at the date it was presented and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1)(a) and punishable under Section 1 (1) (b) (i) of the Dishonoured Cheques (Offences) Act, Laws of the Federation, 2014”.
