EFCC Arraigns Lawyer Over Alleged ₦27m Fraud
The Lagos Zonal Directorate II of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, October 23, 2025, arraigned a legal practitioner, Victor Azubike Awah, before Justice O.A. Okunuga of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, on allegations of fraud amounting to ₦27 million.
Awah, who is standing trial alongside his company, Sparkan Ives Limited, faces a six-count charge bordering on stealing, obtaining money by false pretence, use of false documents, and issuance of dud cheques.
One of the counts alleges that between October 2024 and February 2025, within Lagos jurisdiction, Awah fraudulently obtained the sum of ₦27 million from Mrs. Onwuekwe Chioma Genevieve under the false representation that he had a plot of land for sale—an act contrary to Section 1(1) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Prosecution counsel, A.M. Dambuwa, thereafter applied for a trial date and prayed the court to remand the defendant in a correctional facility pending trial. Awah, notably, elected to represent himself during the proceedings.
Justice Okunuga adjourned the matter to December 17 and 18, 2025, for hearing of the bail application and commencement of trial. The court further ordered that the defendant be remanded in the custody of the EFCC.
