{"id":37701,"date":"2021-12-24T21:33:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T20:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=37701"},"modified":"2021-12-24T21:33:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T20:33:52","slug":"university-of-benin-student-gets-rare-christmas-gift-as-efcc-returns-n326k-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=37701","title":{"rendered":"University of Benin student gets rare Christmas gift as EFCC returns N326k to him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It came like a Christmas gift for Diemesor Gabriel, 21-year-old student of Chemical Engineering,&nbsp; University of Benin, when on Friday December 24, 2021,&nbsp; Adesola Amusan, an Assistant Commander of the EFCC, Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, presented him with a bank draft of N326,000 (Three Hundred and Twenty-six Thousand Naira)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to EFCC spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, Gabriel had in September petitioned the EFCC over the illegal withdrawal of N326,000 from the N600,000 scholarship grant paid into his account.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the course of investigating the petition, the Commission arrested three suspects and recovered the sum of N326,000.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211224-WA0010-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37688\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Receiving the draft, an elated Gabriel was full of praises and commendation for the Commission. &#8220;The Commission has done very well. I was pleasantly surprised when I was called. I had lost hope when fraudsters withdrew the money. Today EFCC has brought simile to my face. The money is for my school fees, project and my upkeep. I am grateful to the EFCC,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amusan assured the Commission will continue to discharge its duties diligently and ensure succour for victims of fraud, while perpetrators are brought to justice.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/VID-20211224-WA0013-3.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It came like a Christmas gift for Diemesor Gabriel, 21-year-old student of Chemical Engineering,&nbsp; University of Benin, when on Friday December 24, 2021,&nbsp; Adesola Amusan, an Assistant Commander of the EFCC, Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, presented him with a bank draft of N326,000 (Three Hundred and Twenty-six Thousand Naira)&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[164,4394,4395],"class_list":["post-37701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-efcc","tag-gabriel","tag-n326k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}