The Nigeria Police has arraigned an event planner, Baba Williams, who allegedly obtained N4.3 million from a businessman under false pretences before a Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.
Williams, who resides at Idejo Street, on Victoria Island, Lagos, was arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy, obtaining under false pretences and stealing.
The prosecutor, Insp Micheal Unah, told the court that the defendant and others still at large, committed the offences sometime in March at Lekki Phase 1 in Lagos State.
He said that Williams obtained the said sum from the complainant, Mr Godspower Adah, on the pretext of exchanging the money to its dollar equivalent but failed to do so.
He said the defendant, therefore, converted the said money to his personal use.
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Unah said the offences contravened Sections 287, 314 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Magistrate, Mrs T. O. Omoyele, granted the defendant bail in the sum of one million naira with two sureties in like sum.
She ordered that the sureties must provide evidence of three years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government and their National Identification Number cards.
The matter was subsequently adjourned till July 12 for mention
