A 34-year-old landlady, Taibat Aruna, has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja for allegedly obtaining N14 million by false pretence from 109 prospective tenants.
The defendant, who resides at Ojo area of Lagos State, is facing a thirty-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining, false pretense and stealing preferred against her by the police. The defendant, standing trial before Magistrate Margaret Dan-Oni, committed the alleged offences between June 5 and August 28 this year.
The police prosecutor, Inspector Edet Okoi, said that the defendant stole the money from her victims with a promise to give them a self-contain accommodation located at Ojo area of Lagos, which she knew was false. Some of the people the defendant defrauded are Chinedu Emmanuel, N132,000; Happiness Etumni, N240,000; Casmir Ezenwa, N230,000, and Adeniyi Bamilosin, N175, 000. Others are Agbudom Obum, N440,000; Nnaji Chinedu, N230,000; Olanrewaju Saheed, N215, among others. Okoi said that the defendant and others at large stole the said sum belonging to one Chinedu Emmanuel and 108 others.
According to the prosecutor, the offence committed is contrary to section 409 and punishable under section 312 (1) (a) (b),312 (3) and 275 (1) (a) (b) of the criminal laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011. However, when the charge was read to the defendant, she pleaded not guilty to the charges. Magistrate Dan-Oni granted the defendant bail in the sum of N2 million with two responsible sureties in like sum, one of the sureties must be a community leader, or a pastor.
The matter was adjourned to November 11 for mention. Meanwhile, the defendant was remanded in Kirikiri female prison, pending when she is able to perfect her bails conditions.
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