Ilorin court remands politician in prison over N600m alleged fraud
An Ilorin Magistrate Court on Wednesday remanded a popular Ibadan-based politician, Dr. Folaranmi Akinosun in prison custody over his alleged involvement in a N600 million admission fraud between Nigeria and Ghana.
Akinosun, who was Senatorial candidate of the Accord Party in Oyo State during the last general elections, will remain in prison till June 2, 2016 when the court will listen to the matter again. He was arraigned late afternoon on Wednesday according to sources familiar with the case.
Akinosun, according to the police First Information Report (FIR), was alleged to be running an illegal degree awarding institution under the name Deltas University College, Keta, Ghana through which he allegedly defrauded several unsuspecting Nigerians in the guise of giving them admission and other relevant documents related to educational activities in Nigeria.
The FIR indicated that incidentally it was Akinosun, who had initially written a petition to the Inspector General of Police, alleging that an Ilorin, Kwara State-based Kinsey College of Education was running an illegal degree awarding programme. He was accused of using a pseudonym to write the petition. It was in the process of investigations by men of the State Intelligence and Investigation Bureau that the alleged criminal activities of Akinosun himself came to the fore, according to the FIR.
The FIR indicated that Akinosun was charged before the court for criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery, giving false information with intent to mislead public servant and obtaining money under false pretence contrary to section 97, 322, 364, 140 of the Penal Code and Section 1(3) of Advance Fee Fraud and other related offences Act Cap A6, Law of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
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