Businessman charged with cheating
A 48-year-old businessman, Adewole Joshua, was on Tuesday docked in a Chief Magistrate’s Court, Wuse, Abuja, for allegedly cheating Chukwuma Nwachukwu of N1.7 million meant to deliver copies of the Nigeria Weekly Law Reports (NWLR). The police charged the defendant with criminal breach of trust and cheating. The prosecuting counsel, Samuel Emmanuel, alleged that the […]
A 48-year-old businessman, Adewole Joshua, was on Tuesday docked in a Chief Magistrate’s Court, Wuse, Abuja, for allegedly cheating Chukwuma Nwachukwu of N1.7 million meant to deliver copies of the Nigeria Weekly Law Reports (NWLR).
The police charged the defendant with criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The prosecuting counsel, Samuel Emmanuel, alleged that the complainant, Nwachukwu, entrusted the defendant with N4,050,000 for the supply of 1,000 copies of NWLR within 48 hours on May 9 and 10.
Emmanuel said that the defendant supplied 550 copies but refused to supply the remaining 450 copies, valued at N1.7 million.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of Sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code. NAN
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty.
The defence counsel, Akinyemi Oluwafemi, made a bail application, citing Sections 162 and 158 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA).
The Magistrate, Chioma Amanwachi, granted the defendant N2 million bail with two sureties, who must reside within the court’s jurisdiction.
Amanwachi ordered that one of the sureties must be a civil servant of Grade Level 08 and the other, a reasonable and reliable one.
She adjourned the matter until November 10, for trial. (NAN)