The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a former Access Bank staff member, Chinonso Akujobi, before the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja over N294.6 million theft.
The anti-graft agency disclosed that Akujobi was arraigned on Thursday, July 9, before Justice I. O. Ijelu by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the EFCC on a five-count charge bordering on stealing.
According to the Commission, the defendant diverted N294.6 million while working with Access Bank Plc through unauthorised transfers into bank accounts linked to her.
“That you, Chinonso Akujobi, sometime between January and December, 2025, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with dishonest intent, and while under the employment of Access Bank Plc, stole and converted for your own use, by unauthorised payments from the general ledger of the bank to your Access Bank account number 0036668871 with the names Chinonso A., Uchechi A. and Florence A., the sum of N109,325,566.86 (One Hundred and Nine Million, Three Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-six Naira, Eighty-six Kobo), thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 280 and punishable under Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.” One of the charges read
Akujobi pleaded not guilty to all five charges when they were read to her.
Following her plea, prosecution counsel, S. M. Yaho, prayed the court for a trial date and urged that the defendant be remanded in a correctional facility pending the determination of the case.
Justice Ijelu subsequently adjourned the matter until October 8, for the hearing of the defendant’s bail application and the commencement of trial.
The court also ordered that Akujobi be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre pending the hearing of her bail application.
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