A 56-year old man who professed to be a speaker in a private University in Lagos, Charles Okonji and an agent Akinola Olubayo, 50, has been charged under the steady gaze of a Lagos Magistrate Court for purportedly utilizing manufactured reports to get the total of N6 million from one Tajudeen Aminu under affectation.
A Police source said that the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG responsible for Zone 2 Command, Lagos Island, Adamu Ibrahim coordinated a group driven by Inspector Olayeye Esomojomi to capture the blamed people following a grumbling by Aminu.
The blamed were charged under the steady gaze of the Igbosere Magistrate Court on a four-check charge verging on acquiring cash under affectation and fraud.
Police Counsel, Francis Igbinosa educated the court in control A/76/2018 that the charged people submitted the offense on 8 March 2018 in Lagos.
Igbinosa told the court that the blamed people utilized a fashioned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC's letter of bank approval with reference No. JV/ERD/A 644 dated 27 February 2018 indicated to have been issued from the Office of the Superintendent of Bonny Terminal, Nigeria to get the total of N6m from the complainant with the guise to supply him 10,000 tons of Automotive Oil Gas (Ago) knowing very well indeed that their cases were false.
Igbinosa said that after the denounced gathered the cash from the complainant, they neglected to give the AGO to him till date and rather changed over the cash to their utilization.
He said the offenses submitted were culpable under areas 411. 314(1)(a), 287(3) and 365 (3)(b) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
The denounced, be that as it may, argued not liable to the claimed wrongdoing in the open court and Chief Magistrate Folashade Botoku allowed them to safeguard in the entirety of N500,000 each with two sureties each in like aggregate.
Botoku suspended the case till 24 October, 3018 for say and requested that the litigants be remanded at the Ikoyi Prison, Lagos till they culminated their safeguard conditions.
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