Innoson Group - EFCC Should Follow due process in Chukwuma’s prosecution.

The EFCC on Wednesday, vowed to arrest Chukwuma and make him face fraud charges in court.

Meanwhile, the Innoson Motors Nigeria Limited, has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission should follow due process in prosecuting its chairman, Chief Innocent Chukwuma.

In a statement by Mr Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman, said shortly after Justice Olusola Williams of the Special Offenses Court sitting in Ikeja, struck out the case of fraud brought against Chukwuma, following the anti-corruption agency’s failure to produce him in court.

The anti-graft commission wants to arraign Chukwuma and his company, Innoson Motors Nigeria Limited, for allegedly conspiring to obtain, by false pretenses, containers of motorcycles, spare parts and raw materials said to be the property of Guaranty Trust Bank, from Mitsui OSK Lines Limited, Apapa, Lagos.

However, reacting to the EFCC ‘vow,’ the Innoson Group insisted that the anti-corruption agency should follow due process in prosecuting Chukwuma.

Cornel Osigwe who is the Head of Corporate Communications, Innoson Group, in a statement, expressed concerns over the EFCC’s interest in what he described as a ‘business dispute’ between Innoson and GTB.

The Statement Read;

“It has become necessary to address the modus operandi being used by the EFCC in prosecuting the alleged, trumped-up fraud charges against the Chairman of Innoson Group at the Lagos State High Court.

“Are some EFCC officers hell-bent or sent to destroy Chief Innocent Chukwuma? Are these agents acting alone or are they being influenced in order to destroy the industrialist?

“This question has become necessary after closely monitoring the activities or the interest of the EFCC in a clearly business dispute between Innoson Nigeria Ltd. and Guaranty Trust Bank.

“The Acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, often times have appeared as one who does his work based on objective principles and therefore should look into the activities of some of his officers who have taken the side of subjectivity.”

The Innoson Group, in the same vein, alleged that the EFCC wanted to force the company  to forego a judgment debt awarded in its favor against GTB.