An Apapa Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos has discharged a thirty-two-year-old woman, who had been standing trial since last year, for allegedly converting a one-room apartment into a clinic.
Chief Magistrate Oluyemisi Adelaja discharged Leticia Odunze for lack of diligent prosecution, but did not acquit her of the charge.
Adelaja ruled that the case had suffered seven unnecessary adjournments at the instance of the prosecution which had not been able to produce any witness.
She,therefore,struck out the case.
Odunze, a resident of Rorobi Street, Olodi, Apapa, was charged to court in Novomber last year for falsely claiming to be a nurse and administering drugs to people from the one-room apartment.
She, however, pleaded not guilty on arraignment and was subsequently granted bail.
Prosecutor,Sergent Benedict Unawunwa had submitted that the alleged offence contravened Sections of the Criminal Code of Lagos State.
In another development, a man who claimed to be a clearing agent has appeared before an Apapa Senior Magistrate’s Court in Lagos over alleged fraud and theft of two hundred and twenty thousand naira.
Mudasiru Nurudeen allegedly duped Olotu Jimoh and Henry Azubuike in the guise of helping them to clear their vehicles from the Tin Can Port, Apapa.
Nurudeen, however, pleaded not guilty and was granted bail by Senior Magistrate Ariyike Ipaye-Nwachukwu in the sum of two hundred thousand naira and two sureties in like sum.
Prosecutor, Sergent Uche Kalu, submitted that the accused committed the alleged offences in March at Adekeye Street Apapa.
Kalu said Nurudeen defrauded one hundred and eighty thousand naira from Jimoh while pretending to clear an Opel Kadet car for him and also duped forty thousand naira from Azubuike in the guise of clearing a Ford Mondeo.
He said the alleged offences were punishable under Sections of the Criminal Code of Lagos State.
The case has been adjourned till August thirty-one.
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