A 40 year old pastor, Mr. Paul Agada has been arraigned before an Abuja High Court for stealing over N200 million belonging to his employer.
Mr. Agada is the General Manager in charge of Business Development and Strategy over a chain of businesses owned by Goomeej Nigeria Ltd including the Lugard Beach Hotels in Lokoja and Mr. Biggs outlets in Lokoja, Okene, Abuja and Lagos.
In the case: Inspector General of Police Vs Pastor Pual Agada (N0.CR/103/2013), he is facing 21 counts charge bothering on forgery, stealing, dishonesty among others.
Some of the charges against the pastor are: Count 1 “That you Pastor Paul Agada ‘m’, sometime in the year 2010 in Abuja within the judicial division of this court with intent to defraud did forge petty expenses vouchers belonging to GOOMEEJ Nig Ltd. (your employer and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 364 of the Penal Code Law.”
Count 2: “That you Pastor Paul Agada ‘m’, sometime in the year sometime in the year 2010 in Abuja within the judicial division of this court with intent to defraud did forge internal memo dated 25/02/2010 belonging to GOOMEEJ Nig Ltd (your employer) and thereby committee an offence punishable under section 364 of the Penal Code Law.”
Count 3 “That you Pastor Paul Agada ‘m’, sometime in the year sometime in the year 2010 in Abuja within the judicial division of this court did steal the sum of One Hundred and Ninety Nine Million (N199,536,499.00) property of GOOMEEJ Nig. Ltd (your employers) and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 289 of the Penal Code Law.”
In Count four, he was accused of stealing his employer power generating set a 5.5 KVA worth N120, 000 belonging to his employer while counts five and six charged him with stealing his employers’ N100,000 and N600,000 respectively.
In other counts, he was charged with stealing various sums of money belonging to his employers.
The accused has pleaded not guilty to all the offences and was granted bail by the trial judge, Justice M. M. Koko. The trial judge who is currently on election petition duty has adjourned the trial sine die.