An Umuahia Chief Magistrate’s Court has remanded Chief Appolos Alozie, a former transition committee chairman of Aba North Council in prison, for allegedly offering bribe to influence his re-appointment as the council boss.
Remanded in prison custody alongside Alozie for the alleged offence, were other persons said to be members of the syndicate that defrauded him.
They were being tried for alleged case of advance fee fraud, otherwise known as 419.
Sacked last year by Governor Theodore Orji after about one month in office as the transition committee chairman of Aba North, Alozie was arraigned for allegedly offering N4.45 million to one Uche Stanley and his group, who were said to have claimed that they would influence Governor Orji to re-appoint him as council chairman.
Members of the said syndicate include Uche Ogbusuo, 35; Henry Madubuike, 37; Joseph Imo Kalu, 36 and one Agwu Ukariwo, now at large.
The court ordered that they be remanded at the Federal Prison Afara Umuahia till October 28 and November 4, for Alozie and the suspects accused for advance fee fraud, respectively.
