Two undergraduate students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Akwa identified as Ebuka Orumba and Patrick Nwafor have allegedly hacked into Simmons cooper Partner, a law firm bank account said to belong to the vice president, Prof Yemi Osinbajo and allegedly stole eight million naira (N8miilion).
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According to investigations, the undergraduates, Nwafor and Orumba are final year students of Environmental Science and Computer Engineering departments respectively.


Tthe students were said to have used fraudulent means to hack into the email of the account manager of the vice president’s law firm, Tunde Irukera.

They also allegedly sent a mail to UBA PLC branch to one Obuba Fidelia on a Thursday,July 2, instructing the bank to transfer eight million naira from Simmons cooper Bank account to three different bank accounts they opened for the fraud.

It was further gathered that the Unizik undergraduates allegedly connived with a tricycle rider, Artor Kalu, to open a bank account with Zenith bank account number 2086943174 where three million naira (N3,000,000) was transferred to using the false name Engineer Asukwo Okoro.


The remaining amounts were said to have been transferred to two other unnamed bank accounts.


Luck however ran out on the undergraduate students when their alleged gang member, Kalu, went to the Zenith bank account at Mushin to withdraw the N3,000,000 but he was nabbed by detectives from the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) following a tip off from the bank.

The police subsequently arrested Kalu and following his statement, the police arrested Orumba but Nwafor escaped.
In line with the investigation, the police discovered that Kalu with the help of others got a fake driver’s license which he used to open the Zenith Bank account.


The SARS detectives have since charged Orumba and Kalu to court on a 5 count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing and fraud while efforts is on to arrest Nwafor whom the others claimed to be the mastermind of the fraud.