PRINCE EBIMENE FETIMI V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, JULIUS OVWUNUWO OGBA & ADEKUNLE MATHEW ABIODUN & PEEF MARINE GLOBAL SERVICES LTD

ABUBAKAR MUAZU LAMIDO, J.C.A.  (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the ruling of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt Judicial Division delivered on 26th February 2018 by Oshomah, J. The Appellant/1st Defendant was arraigned along with four others before the trial Court on a 5 count charge of conspiracy to obtain money by false pretence, obtaining money by false pretence, forgery and Uttering contrary to Sections 8(b), 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee fraud and Other Related Offences Act and Section 1 (2) (c) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act. The charges against the Appellant/1st Defendant read as follows:

COUNT 1.

That you Prince Ebimenefetimi, Julius Ovwunuwo Ogba, Adekunle Mathew Abiodun, Peef Marine Global Services Limited and others now at large, sometimes in 2014 at Port Harcourt within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did conspire among yourself to commit felony to wit: obtaining money by false pretence and thereby committed an offence contrary to Se…