EFCC arraigns two for alleged unlawful supply of bank credentials

Abdullateef Fowewe

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned two men before a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, over allegations they unlawfully supplied bank access credentials to gain entry into First City Monument Bank (FCMB) systems.

In a statement obtained on Thursday, the EFCC said its Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 arraigned Gideon Bakpa Aghogho and Oscar Ebere Chukwuebuka before Justice F.N. Ogazi on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, alongside a third suspect identified only as “Scott,” who remains at large.

They face an eight-count charge “bordering on the unlawful supply of access credentials to a bank database,” contrary to Sections 27 and 28(1)(b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act, 2015, as amended in 2024.

One count alleges that between July 24 and 26, 2026, the defendants “conspired unlawfully by supplying for use the access code of GIDEON BAKPA AGHOGHO to the FCMB system using the local Administrative Credential (ITSD), which is capable of allowing access to the FCMB Virtual Center Platform, with the intention of committing an offence.”

Another count accuses Aghogho of knowingly and without authority disclosing access credentials—including the bank’s server IP and domain credentials—to gain access to FCMB’s database between April and May 2025 “in exchange for $15,000.”
Pleas and court orders
When the charges were read, the first defendant, Aghogho, pleaded not guilty, while the second defendant, Chukwuebuka, pleaded guilty. Prosecution counsel Bilkisu Buhari then sought a trial date for Aghogho and asked that he be remanded in a correctional facility, while requesting a review of the facts against Chukwuebuka following his guilty plea.

Justice Ogazi adjourned the case to August 27, 2026, for a review of the facts and further proceedings, and ordered that both defendants be remanded at a correctional centre pending the next hearing.