How former Lagos scholarship board scribe allegedly diverted N127m, by EFCC

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An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday heard how a former Executive Secretary of Lagos State Scholarship Board, Stephen Oshinowo allegedly diverted N127 million to personal use.

Oshinowo is facing an amended eight-count charge bordering on criminal conversion brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo.

During resumed proceedings Monday, an investigator of the EFCC, Monday Moley, narrated how the defendant used his account in United Bank of Africa to perpetrate the alleged fraud.Following the receipt of a petition, the commission freezed the defendant’s accounts and commenced investigation into the allegations stated in the document.He said that as at the time of freezing the account the defendant had converted parts of the fund received from Lagos State Scholarship Board to personal use.

 

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