Crime
Student arraigned for allegedly defrauding company of N900,000
Busayo Ayedun, a 24-year-old student at the Lagos State Polytechnic in Ikorodu, is on trial before a Yaba Magistrate Court for allegedly defrauding a company, CD Care Limited of products and money totalling more than N900,000 in the state.
The defendant is charged with eight counts that include crime, fraud, deceit, pretence, stealing, forgery, and false representation as well as purposeful and unlawful conspiracy.
Inspector Godwin Oriabure, the police prosecutor, informed the court that the offence was perpetrated by the defendant between July 10, 2021, and October 31, 2021, near Adenike Street in the Fadeyi neighbourhood of the state.
The charges read in part, “That you, Busayo Ayedun, and others at large, between July 10, 2021, and October 31, 2022, between 8 am to 6 pm at Adenike Street, Fadeyi, Lagos State, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did deliberately and unlawfully conspired among yourselves to deceive and defraud CD Care Limited of goods valued at N911,709, 84.”
Oluwatobi Odukoya, a sales agent for the company who testified for the prosecution, described how the crime was perpetrated by saying that Ayedun ordered three items for N638,706,000 online on the days in question: a Samsung Galaxy A12, an iPhone 12 mini, and a Binatone standing fan.
According to Odukoya, Ayedun also asked for reimbursement for a payment she allegedly made to the business and received in the amount of N273,003,81.
He continued by saying that it was found that Ayedun had placed all of the orders under three distinct names: Wahab Adeyemo, Ayedun Ibiyemi, and Shoberu Michael.
After the company found out that it had been defrauded and that all the payments Ayedun claimed to have made with bank statements and payment receipts were false, Odukoya said she was contacted via phone calls and Whatsapp messages to come within the space of three months to clarify the misconception.
Odukoya said Ayedun did not show up, adding that the company reported to the police who arrested her and retrieved one of the phones.
In her defence, Ayedun said she paid some of the money using her roommate’s point-of-sale machine, adding that all the details were in the phone retrieved by the police.
The Chief Magistrate, O. A. Salawu, instructed the defendant to take payment records with dates from her roommate’s PoS machine and show them in court during the subsequent trial.
The case was adjourned until January 26, 2023, for cross-examination and continuation of trial.
Student arraigned for allegedly defrauding company of N900,000
The Anambra State Police Command has foiled a cult initiation ceremony in Nawfia, Njikoka Local Government Area of the state.
Spokesperson for the Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Awka.
According to Ikenga, the operation was carried out by police operatives around 9:30am on June 15, leading to the arrest of six suspects at the scene.
Recovered during the raid were one Jojef pump action gun, two cartridges, and a golden-coloured Lexus SUV with registration number ATN 202 AE. Other items found include two cutlasses, two scissors, a cap bearing the inscription of the Supreme Vikings Confraternity, charms, and substances suspected to be hard drugs.
“They are currently undergoing police interrogation to get more insight into their modus operandi, after which the case will be charged to court on the conclusion of the investigations,” Ikenga stated.
The police spokesperson reassured residents of the command’s unwavering commitment to fighting cultism and other related crimes across the state.
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Wednesday, remanded two persons, Olaitan Fasasi and Kehinde Tobiloba in a correctional facility over alleged attempted murder.
Fasasi, 40, and Tobiloba, 26, whose addresses were not provided, are being charged with conspiracy, attempted murder and membership of a secret society.
The Magistrate, Mr L.A Owolabi, did not take the plea of the defendants for want of jurisdiction.
Owolabi directed the police to forward the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.
He thereafter adjourned the case until May 31 for mention.
The Prosecutor, Josephine Ikhayere, told the court that the defendants committed the offences at about 5.02p.m on Feb. 15, at Mushin, Lagos.
She said that Fasasi, Tobiloba and others now at large, attempted to commit murder by shooting at a resident, Alfred Ademola.
“They armed themselves with a locally made gun. They belong to Eiye Confraternity, a group proscribed by law,”, she said.
Ikhayere said that the offences contravened Sections 230(1) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2012.
He said that the actions of the defendants also contravened Section 2(3)(a)(b)(c)(d) of the unlawful societies and Cultism Law of Lagos State Law.
An Area Court in Jos, on Tuesday, sentenced one Jeptha John, to three months imprisonment for stealing a Redmi mobile phone valued at N165, 000.
The judge, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced the John after he pleaded guilty to the offence.
The judge, however, gave the convict an option to pay N20, 000 fine and N50, 000 restitution to the complainant.
Bokkos said that if the convict defaulted in paying the restitution, three months should be added to his sentence to make it six months imprisonment.
Earlier, the police prosecutor, Insp Monday Dabit, told the court that the case was reported at the B Division Police Station, Jos, on Dec. 1, 2024, by Ms Nerat Danjuma.
He said that the complainant alleged that the defendant trespassed into her house and stole her mobile phone valued at N165, 000.
The prosecutor further told the court that the offence contravened the Plateau State Penal Code, Law of Northern Nigeria.
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