3 Arraigned In Court Over The Defrauding Of Lagos State Assembly Speaker

Three men, who allegedly hacked the Facebook account of Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa and stole N9.188,100.00 from his bank account, were on Tuesday brought before the Federal High Court, Lagos.
Frank Nwokobia, 27, Ezeoke Kanayochukwu, 25, and Godwin Essien, 28, were arraigned before a judge, Justice Chuka Obiozor, by the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) of the Lagos Police Command, Panti-Yaba.

They are standing trial on a five-count charge of conspiracy, impersonation, identity theft and fraud. According to prosecuting counsel, William Olu Ologun, the trio, sometime in May, hacked Obasa’s Facebook account and retrieved information with which they withdrew N9.1million from his Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Plc account.