A special assistant to former Defence Minister, Lt. Gen. T. Y.
Danjuma (retd), Manasseh Zorto, was on Friday brought
before a Federal High Court in Lagos State for allegedly
defrauding his boss of N2bn.
The suspect, who was said to be on the run, could not be
arraigned before Justice Okon Abang on Friday.
When the matter was called, the counsel to the Special Fraud
Unite, Chief Godwin Obla, said the police were having
challenges in bringing the accused to court.
He said the police would apply for bench warrant for the
arrest of the suspect.
Obla said: “My lord, we are in court today so as not to allow
the matter to be unattended to. We humbly pray the court to
grant us more time to bring the accused to court for
arraignment.
“For now, we don’t want to apply for bench warrant but we
will make more efforts to arrest the accused.”
Justice Abang consequently fixed October 2 for the
arraignment.
According to the charge sheet, Zorto was said to have
fraudulently used his position as an employee of Tita-Kuru
Petrochemicals Limited, T.Y Holdings Limited and Central
Realities Limited, all companies linked to Danjuma, to steal
about N2bn from the companies.
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