•  Four others for alleged illegal roadblock, extortion
A serving Deputy Director in the Enugu State Water Cooperation, Emeka Edoh, has been arraigned before a Magistrate Court in Enugu North Magisterial District over alleged false pretence with intent to defraud residents of Enugu of the sum of N150,000.

Edoh was arraigned before Chief Magistrate, Joseph Agu, yesterday.

The charge sheet marked, MEN/240/C/2024, was read out to the 56-year-old defendant and level 15 civil servant, who, however, pleaded not guilty.
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This was even as the police arraigned four persons, Onyeka Nicholas, male, aged 27; Okechukwu Umeh, male, aged 40; Monday Udeh, male, aged 37 and Tochukwu Eze, male, aged 28 and others at large for alleged illegal roadblock, intimidation and extortion of money from Enugu residents and motorists.

The Water Corporation’s Deputy Director one-count charge reads: “That you, Edoh Emeka, on April 23, 2024, at No 144 Banks Avenue, in Enugu North Magisterial District, did, by false pretence and with intent to defraud, obtain the total sum of 150,000 from Chinyere Ogbonna,  Onyinye Ugwu and other members of the neighborhood with the pretence to rectify their Enugu State Water Corporation bill, which you know to be false, and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 386 of the Criminal Code, Cap 30 Vol 11, reversed Laws of Enugu State of Nigeria.”
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