Two PHEDC staff arraigned for stealing N.649m

Port Harcourt -- Two staff members of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, have been arraigned before the Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt, for stealing N649,100 from the company.

The suspects, Emmanuel Nimiteim Tailor and Alabo Wokoma, were arraigned on two counts charge bordering on conspiracy, felony and stealing of N649,100 from PHEDC, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 390 (6) of the Criminal Code Law Cap.

The money, our correspondent gathered, were payments made by unsuspecting customers to offset their electricity bills.

The charge read, "That you Emmanuel Nimiteim Tailor 'm', Alabo Wokoma 'm' and others now at large in the month of April, 2020 at Easy Pay International Company Limited, Port Harcourt in the Port Harcourt Magisterial District, did conspire amongst yourselves to commit felony to wit: Stealing and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 516 of the Criminal Code Law Cap. 37 Vol. II Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999.

"That you Emmanuel Nimiteim Tailor 'm' and Alabo Wokoma 'm' and others now at large between 13 April, 2020 to 30 March, 2021 in the same place, time and in the aforesaid Magisterial District, did use Wokoma Alabo Ibinabo's GTBank Account

No. 0200582576 to steal the sum of N649,100.00 only property of Port Harcourt Electricity and Distribution Company and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 390 (6) of the Criminal Code Law Cap. 37 Vol. II Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999."