The councillor representing Umualor Ward in Isi-Uzo LGA of Enugu State, Hon. Maxwell Aluagbo, has been remanded.
Politics Nigeria reports that the Enugu State Magistrate court presided over by Magistrate Mrs N. Esso remanded him for alleged embezzlement of one million, one hundred thousand naira (N1.1 million).
The money was reportedly meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in his constituency.
The councillor was recently accused and suspended for the alleged fraud by his colleagues.
The 33-year-old Aluagbo was arraigned by police on Friday before Magistrate Court 7, Enugu East LGA, on a one-count criminal charge bordering on fraud.
He was arrested last week by Enugu police command in a hotel where he was hiding with his fiance.
The charge sheet marked CME/478/C/2023 read: “That you, Aluagbo Maxwell ‘m’, on March 3, 2023, at Ikem in Isi-Uzo Magisterial District holden in Enugu did by false pretence and with intent to defraud, obtained the total sum of One Million, One Hundred Thousand Naira (N1,100,000.00) from Isi-Uzo Local Government Legislature with the pretence to use same for palliatives and relief support of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Umualor, a promise you knew to be false and committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1) (b) and (c) and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act, Laws of Federation of Nigeria 2006 as applicable in Enugu State”.
Hon. Aluagbo, who pleaded not guilty, was remanded in the Enugu correctional custodial centre by Magistrate Mrs N. Esso and adjourned till August 22, 2003.
