EFCC arraigns four Dangote workers for stealing N15m cement

Four individuals from staff of the Dangote Group were on Thursday charged before an Ogun State High Court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Zone , for supposed N 15m misrepresentation .

The respondents , Adewale Dalmeida, Ibrahim Lawal , Afeez Olaniba and Lukman Adam , were charged before Justice O . J . Bamgbose on two checks of scheme and taking.

As per the EFCC , an appeal to was gotten from the organization that Dalmeida, an armada investigator , whose activity plan included checking, following and detailing trucks of Dangote Cement , Ibese plant , schemed with the main driver of the organization, Lawal , and a Ghanaian driver, Adam , and Olaniba , who functioned as an operator at the Nigerian - Benin fringe, to dupe the organization of N 15m .

It was assembled that the respondents redirected nine trucks conveying 800 packs of bond each , esteemed at over N 15m , which were intended to be conveyed to the organization' s clients in Togo.

As indicated by the EFCC , the litigants executed the demonstration through phony character cards and truck number plates.

The charges read , " That you , Adewale Dalmeida, Ibrahim Lawal , Afeez Olaniba and Lukman Adam , among May and August 2018 at Ibese , inside the purview of this good court , plotted among yourselves to submit crime, to mind; taking of the whole of N 15, 940, 800. 00, property of Dangote Cement Plc.

" That you , Adewale Dalmeida, Ibrahim Lawal , Afeez Olaniba and Lukman Adam , among May and August 2018 at Ibese , inside the locale of this noteworthy court , stole nine trucks of bond esteemed at N 15, 940, 800. 00, property of Dangote Cement Plc. "

The blamed argued not liable to the charges.

In perspective of their request , the indictment direct , Idris Mohammed, connected for a preliminary date and encouraged the court to remand the litigants in jail care since there was no application for safeguard under the steady gaze of the court . He restricted remanding them in the EFCC authority.

Anyway , the protection direct for the first respondent, Adewumi Adisa, and the safeguard guide for the second , third and fourth litigants , Abolanle Davies , asked the court to enable their customers to stay in the EFCC authority pending the knowing about their safeguard application .

Equity Bamgbose requested that the respondents be remanded in the Ibara Prison , Abeokuta, and dismissed till December 17, 2018, for knowing about the safeguard application and initiation of preliminary .