A serving Deputy Director in the Enugu State Water Cooperation, Emeka Edoh, has been arraigned before a Magistrate Court in Enugu over alleged attempt to defraud some residents of Enugu of the sum of N150,000.
The 56-year old defendant and level 15 civil servant, who was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Joseph Agu, Tuesday however, pleaded not guilty.
Edoh was alleged to have on the 23rd of April, at No 144 Banks Avenue, in Enugu falsely obtained a total of one hundred and fifty thousand naira from Chinyere Ogbonna, Onyinye Ugwu and other members of the neighborhood with the pretence to rectify their Water Corporation bill.
A bail application for the Defendant made by his counsel, E.E. Ezekwe, who argued that it was a bailable offence was opposed by a Senior Legal Officer from the Office of the Attorney-General of Enugu State, Onyinye Ugwu,.
Ugwu argued that the offence for which Mr. Emeka Edoh was charged was a serious one.
After hearing the arguments of both parties, Magistrate Agu granted Mr. Edoh bail in the sum of N500,000 and a surety, who must be a Staff of the Enugu Sate Water Corporation of Grade Level 14 or above.
The matter was thereafter adjourned to 22nd of May, 2024 for hearing.
