Man on the run after issuing N4m dud cheque

No one could really tell the whereabouts of one Benneth, who is reportedly currently on the run after he was declared wanted and a warrant of arrest issued against him by the Enugu State Criminal Investigations Department. The fleeing Benneth, it was gathered, had reportedly issued a dud cheque to one Zed Chukwujama to the tune of a little over N4 million.
Benneth, 40, resided at No 44b, Imoke Street, Enugu, the state capital as at the time of the crime. It was gathered that long before he issued the dud cheque, Benneth had been found guilty in a court case at the Appeal Court in the state where he was mandated to pay the sum of N5, 040, 000 to Chukwujama.
As if he was serious about meeting the court’s demand, he paid a million naira out of the lot leaving the balance of a little over N4 million to balance up the amount awarded against him. He left no one in doubt that he could not raise the remaining four million and forty thousand naira. Promising to wrap up the payment,he agreed with Chukwujama to have the balance paid him at a new generation bank in the metropolis. Benneth thus issued a cheque of N4, 040, 000 to Chukwujama.

It was further gathered that when Chukwujama got to the bank, he was promptly informed that Benneth had no such amount in his account with them at the bank. Hoping to clarify the botched transaction between the two men, the bank urged Chukwujama to come to their office with the man who issued the cheque to him.
Chukwujama hurriedly went in search of Benneth but sadly enough, he had reportedly taken to his heels by the time the man arrived in his abode.
Obviously worried by the development, Chukwujama took the matter before security operatives at the state police command, and they sprang into action immediately by declaring him wanted urging anyone with useful information on him.
Chukwujama was quoted as expressing his disgust with the way Benneth treated him even after a competent court of law had mandated him to pay the said compensation to him, saying “having paid the N1 million before now, no one would have thought that this man would act this way. He never displayed any sign of dishonesty until he did what he did y issuing the dud cheque.”
The victim, however, urged law enforcement agents to find the fleeing man so as to make him pay his money as awarded by the court.
Spokesman for Enugu State Police Command, Ebere Amaraizu, in astatement, described Benneth as being fair in complexion and about 5 feet tall with a plump look. Amaraizu therefore urged members of the public to alert the command or any nearest policemen station anytime he is found.