The suspect was arraigned before a Chief
Magistrate’s Court in Osogbo headed by Mrs. Fatima Sodamade on Monday
on three
counts of stealing, obtaining by false pretences and conspiracy.
counts of stealing, obtaining by false pretences and conspiracy.
The police prosecutor, Mr. Taiwo
Adegoke, told the court that the suspect and others at large conspired
together and fraudulently obtained the sum of N400,000 from Adebisi on
the pretext of selling a plot of land to him.
The charges read in part, “That you,
Chief Busari Oyewumi, and others now at large, sometime in 2015 at the
back of the Powerline area, Osogbo, in the Osogbo Magisterial District,
did fraudulently obtain the sum of N400,000 from one Alhaji Ganiyu
Adebisi on behalf of his son, Adebisi Wasiu, on the pretext of selling a
plot of land to him measuring 50 by 1000 feet, knowing that your
intention was to defraud him of his money, thereby committing an offence
contrary to and punishable under Section 419 of the Criminal Code Cap
34 Vol. II Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2003.”
The suspect pleaded not guilty and his counsel, Mr. Soji Oyetayo, prayed the court to admit him to bail in liberal terms.
The chief magistrate, in her ruling, granted the bail application with one surety and adjourned the case to March 1 for hearing.
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