The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) has charged Oguibe Promise Nkwachukwu, an accountant with Travelstar Net Logistics Restricted, and his firm, Wifamapp Royalty World Restricted, to courtroom for allegedly stealing N200 million belonging to his employer.
The EFCC disclosed this in an announcement posted on its official X web page
“Particularly, he was arraigned for allegedly stealing the sum of N200,000,000 (Two Hundred Million Naira) whereas serving as an accountant of Travelstar Net Logistics Restricted,” they said
The fee said that the arraignment passed off on Monday, October 6, earlier than Justice R.A. Oshodi of the Lagos State Excessive Court docket sitting in Ikeja.
In line with the EFCC, Nkwachukwu and his firm had been arraigned earlier than the courtroom’s Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 on a 13-count cost bordering on stealing. The alleged offence occurred whereas he was serving as an accountant at Travelstar Net Logistics Restricted.
One of many costs reads:
“That you just, Oguibe Promise Nkwachukwu, being the alter ego of Wifamapp Royalty World Restricted and Wifamapp Royalty World Restricted, being an organization included in Nigeria someday in March, 2020 in Nigeria, inside the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court docket, dishonestly transformed to your individual use the sum of $36,000 (Thirty Six Thousand United States America {Dollars}), property of Travelstar Net Logistics Restricted entrusted to you, being the custodian as an accountant to the Travelstar Net Logistics Restricted, thereby dedicated an offence stealing, opposite to Part 280(1) (b) and (2) (f) and 287 of the Felony Regulation of Lagos State, 2015.”
One other rely reads:
“That you just, Oguibe Promise Nkwachukwu, being the alter ego of Wifamapp Royalty World Restricted and Wifamapp Royalty World Restricted, being an organization included in Nigeria someday between twenty ninth January, 2018 and July, 2018 in Nigeria, inside the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court docket, dishonestly transformed to your individual use the sum of $156,000 (One Hundred and Fifty Six Thousand United States America {Dollars}), property of Travelstar Net Logistics Restricted entrusted to you, being the custodian as an accountant to the Travelstar Net Logistics restricted, thereby dedicated an offence Stealing, opposite to Part 280(1) (b) and (2) (f) and 287 of the Felony Regulation of Lagos State, 2015.”
When the costs had been learn, Nkwachukwu pleaded not responsible to all 13 counts.
Following his plea, prosecution counsel, A.A. Usman, utilized for a trial date and urged the courtroom to remand the defendant at a Correctional Centre pending the graduation of trial.
In response, defence counsel, Kelvin C. Uzozie, knowledgeable the courtroom that he had filed a bail utility for his shopper and pleaded that the defendant be remanded in EFCC custody as an alternative.
After listening to each side, Justice R.A. Oshodi adjourned the case to October 17, 2025, for the listening to of the bail utility. The decide additionally ordered that the defendant be remanded on the Kirikiri Correctional Centre in Lagos.
