EFCC Arraigns Suspected Nigerian Scammer

An undergraduate of the University of Ibadan, Orowo Jesse Omokoh who was arrested early this year by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly obtaining Ninety Thousand Dollars ($90,000.) from his Australian grandma lover was on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 before the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan.

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Omokoh Orowo Jesse was charged on a 9-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretense  before Justice R.B Akintola.

It was reported in March 2013 that the 67 year-old grandmother, Jette Jacobs who had met 28-year-old Orowo online on a dating website travelled to South Africa to meet her lover after he proposed to her but was later found dead in her hotel room five days after their meeting.

Jesse, however, disappeared after her death but was caught almost a year after in Lagos in a raid.

All the nine charges were read to Jesse and he pleaded not guilty.

Count one of the charge reads: “Omokoh Orowo Jesse, Ifeanyi Oro (still at large), Emojewe (still at large) and David (still at large) sometime in 2012 at Ibadan within the Ibadan Judicial Division with intent to defraud conspired to obtain the sum of $70,000 (Seventy Thousand Dollars) from one Jette Jacobs, a 67-year-old Australian woman under the false pretence that the money represents payment for marriage engagement processes between you and her in Nigeria and which pretence you knew was false”.

In view of Jesse’s plea, EFCC Counsel, Zainab Ettu prayed the court for a trial date and for the remand of the accused person in prison custody. However, counsel to the accused person, Tunji Ogunude informed the court that he had filed an application for bail and sued for bail on liberal terms for his client.

Justice Akintola after listening to both counsel, adjourned the case till July 10, 2014 for hearing of bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded in Agodi.

Source: Legit.ng