How General Danjuma Lost N2bn to One of His Aides

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Former Defence Minister, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (retd) is presenttly not a happy man as latest reports indicate that the military topshot has lost a whooping sum of N2billion to one of his aides.

A special assistant to the retired general, Manasseh Zorto, was on Friday brought before a Federal High Court in Lagos State for allegedly defrauding his boss of N2bn.

The suspect, who was said to be on the run, could not be arraigned before Justice Okon Abang on Friday.

When the matter was called, the counsel to the Special Fraud Unite, Chief Godwin Obla, said the police were having challenges in bringing the accused to court.

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He said the police would apply for bench warrant for the arrest of the suspect.

Obla said: "My lord, we are in court today so as not to allow the matter to be unattended to. We humbly pray the court to grant us more time to bring the accused to court for arraignment.

"For now, we don't want to apply for bench warrant but we will make more efforts to arrest the accused."

Justice Abang consequently fixed October 2 for the arraignment.

According to the charge sheet, Zorto was said to have fraudulently used his position as an employee of Tita-Kuru Petrochemicals Limited, T.Y Holdings Limited and Central Realities Limited, all companies linked to Danjuma, to steal about N2bn from the companies.