Ilorin court refuses to terminate criminal charges against ex-Kwara lawmaker

Date: 2019-11-13

A Kwara state high court, sitting in Ilorin, the state capital, Wednesday refused an oral application brought by a former member of the state House of Assembly, Mohammed Adebayo seeking to terminate the criminal charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The Ilorin Zonal office of the anti-graft agency had on August 1, 2019, arraigned Adebayo on a six-count charge bordering on land fraud and obtaining money under false pretence before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the state high court.

The charge read: "That you, Mohammed Adebayo, sometime in July 2013, in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to defraud and obtained the sum of N950,000 from one Mary Omowunmi Kolade on the false pretence that three plots of land (situate at Malete, Moro LGA of Kwara state) which you sold to her belonged to you, a representation you knew to be false, punishable under Section 1 of the advanced fee fraud and other fraud-related offences."

The accused person had pleaded not guilty to the charges.

At the resumed hearing of the matter Wednesday, counsel to the defendant,Barrister I.Abdulazzez, said "my Lord, the victims in this matter had written a letter to the prosecution to withdraw their complaints against the defendant, in the light of the absence of the prosecution, I urge this honourable court to terminate the charges."

Justice Oyinloye in a short ruling said: "in the interest of justice and fair hearing, the charge will not be terminated on the basis of prosecution counsel's absence, this honourable court shall adjourn this matter while hearing notice shall be issued on the lawyer."

Justice Oyinloye then adjourned trial on the matter till Dec. 11, 2019, for the continuation of trial.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwara State Governor     Binta Abubakar Mora     Eleja Taiwo Banu     David Oyedepo     SUBEB     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Jelili Yusuf     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Olatunde Jare     Olabanji Orilonishe     Erubu Oba Zubair     Ogbondoroko     GANZY     Garba Ado Sanni     SSA Youth     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Fulani     Gbemi Saraki     Olusola Saraki     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Olayinka Are     Nigeria Customs Service     Temi Kolawole     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Toyin Falola     Ibrahim Orire     Muritala Olarewaju     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Harrison Osauwagboe     Kunbi Titiloye     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Salihu Jibril Garbi     IYA YUSUF     Jebba     Admiralty Villa     Bamidele Aluko     Balogin Alanamu     Baaziki Sulaiman     Zainab Abass     Samuel Adaramola     Lola Olabayo     Eleyele     Babata     Akanbi-Oke     S.O. Opowoye     UNILORIN Alumni     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Kola Adesina     IDPU     Ilesha-Gwanara     NSCIA     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Tunji Olawuyi     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Yusuf Aiyedun     Christopher Odetunde     Ahmed Alhasssan     Tunji Arosanyin     Omoniyi     Elese Of Igbaja     Omu Aran     Isaac Gbenle     JAAC     KWTV     Funmilayo Mohammed     Yahya Mohammed     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     John Kehinde Salako     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Sarah Alade     Guber Aspirant    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

CCB     Moses Rahman Popoola     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     Charcoal     Rasaq Jimoh     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Just Event Online     Kola Olota     Okin High School     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Students Union Government     Aliyu Umar     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Wahab Isa     MATTA Girls Foundation     Nigeria Customs Service     Muhammadu Buhari     Christopher Ayeni     Raymond Olaitan     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Alliance For Democracy     Abdulrauf Aliyu     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Lucky Omoluwa     Hussein Oloyede     Makama Of Ilorin     Abdulrazaq Sanni     James Kolo     Awwal Jawondo     Musa Abdullahi     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Laolu Saraki     Col. Taiwo     Doyin Group     Ahmed     Funke Adedoyin     Florence Saraki     Alaiye     Okin Biscuits     Simeon Ajibola     NIRSAL     Olaosebikan     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Towoju     Yunus Lawal     Adamu Atta     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Share-Tsaragi     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Babaita     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Jani Ibrahim     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Al-Adaby     ASUU     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Shettima Of Ilorin     Bankole Omishore     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Aliyu U. Tilde     Voices Of Tomorrow     Baba Issa     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     SSA Youth     SARS     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Mufti Of Ilorin     Maimunat Oniyangi     Hamid Bobboyi     AGF Abdulrazaq     Ogbondoroko     BIR