Dud cheque: Court Fixes Dec 10 For Trial of Oil Marketer

An Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos, has adjourned the trial of an oil marketer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Oluokun, who was charged before the court on alleged issuance of dud cheques valued at $1.6 million, till December 10.

Ayodeji was charged before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo alongside his oil firm, Peak Petroleum Industry Nigeria Limited, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a two-count charge.

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The defendant and his company were first arraigned before the court on January 21, 2019, on the offence

EFCC in a charge marked ID/8509c/19, alleged that the defendant and his company, sometimes in 2014, approached the management of GOSL Nigeria Limited, for a loan of $1 million and $666,666 respectively to enable him carry out operation activities in his company’s oil field in Bayelsa State.

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