A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has remanded the manager of a real estate company, De Villa, in the Port Harcourt Custodial Centre till February 2022.
The suspect, identified as Kelly Nwogu, was accused of defrauding over 1,000 clients of several sums of money.
He was remanded after his lawyer failed to secure his bail through an oral application when the matter came up before Justice S.D. Pam of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt.
His lawyers had told the judge that the defendant’s bail by a former court was still subsisting.
However, the prosecuting lawyers opposed it, as Justice Pam agreed to remand him, adjourning the case till February 28, 2022, for a proper hearing of the bail application.
