The trial of a 33-year-old sales representative, Olajumoke
Coker, who allegedly defrauded her employer of N13.6 million, began on
Wednesday at an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.....
The accused, who resides at 8,
Rasheed Alatishe St., Magodo, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of fraud and
stealing to which she pleaded not guilty. Police Prosecutor Raphael Donny
alleged that the woman committed the offences sometime between January 2016 and
April 2017 at Mopson Pharmaceutical Company Ltd located at Ajao Estate, Isolo
in Lagos. Donny said the accused, a sales representative in the company, sold
some drugs and failed to remit the money into the company’s account. “It was
when the auditors came to audit the account that they discovered that the sum
of N13.6 million was missing. “When the accused was called to give account, she
was unable to prove her innocence,” he told the court. The offences contravened
Sections 287 and 325 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. Newsmen report
that the accused, on conviction, may be sentenced to seven years imprisonment
according to Section 287. In her ruling, Chief Magistrate Folakemi
Davies-Abegunde granted the accused bail in the sum of N3 million with two
sureties in like sum and adjourned the case until Dec. 4 for mention. NAN
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