A thirty-seven-year-old man has appeared before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court for allegedly defrauding a businesswoman of one point one million naira in the guise of assisting to clear her goods at the Lagos wharf.
Mudi Muskie, who claimed to be a clearing agent, was charged before Magistrate A. T. Omoyele, but he pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge.
Prosecutor, ASP Samuel Abraham, said the accused duped Ngozi Akabueze, after promising to clear her twenty-feet container, full of personal effects, from the Tin Can Port in Apapa.
He said Muskie collected the sum from his victim to clear the goods but failed to do the job and did not return the money.
The court granted bail to the accused in the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand naira with two sureties in like sum, and adjourned the case till June twenty-nine for further hearing.
Similarly, the police has arraigned a twenty-two- year-old man, Bassey Eteng, before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court over the theft of bundles of cables belonging to the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited.
Prosecutor, Sergent Francis Igbinosun, submitted that Eteng conspired with some others still at large to steal the cables worth one point five million naira on December last year at WEMPCO Road, Ikeja.
He said the accused, who claimed to be unemployed, was apprehended while making efforts to remove the stolen cables.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of conspiracy and theft before Magistrate A. F. Botokun.
Botokun granted him bail in the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand naira with two sureties in like sum, and adjourned the case till June thirty for further hearing.
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