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.

Ahmed Alhasssan     Mustapha Olanipekun     Aliyu Adebayo     Bayo Onimago     Alfa Yahaya Road     Orisa Bridge     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Haliru Yahaya     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     International Aviation College     Awoye     Ilorin Metro Park     Dorcas Afeniforo     Adijat Adebiyi     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Akeem Lawal     Yusuf Aiyedun     Abdulhakeem Amao     Tanke Road     Sarah Jubril     Salman Alada     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Kayode Bankole     Saeedat Aliyu     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Kwara State Television     Tinubu Legacy Forum     IF-K     Playing Host     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Woro     Nagode     Olabanji Orilonishe     Amoyo     Just Law Forum     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Yahya Mohammed     Abubakar Atiku     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     IHS Towers     Kale Bayero     Bisi Kristien     Saduki Lafiagi     Akeem Olatunji     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Cornelius Fawenu     Gambari     Kumbi Titiloye     Baba-Isale     Okin Biscuits     Asa LGEA School     Galadiman Ngeri     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     KwaraLearn     Okin Malt     Ajikobi     Lotus Bank     Aliyu Alhassan     Atiku Abubakar     COEASU     Pakata Patriots     Ebola     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Adedeji Onimago     GGDSS Pakata     Balogun Gambari     UNILORIN Alumni     AbdulRahman Saad     CCT     Ramadhan     Rafiu Olasile     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Okin Group    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sheriff Olanrewaju     Yahaya Seriki     Yetunde Balogun     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Tunji Folami     Musa Yeketi     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Olokoba     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Logun     Trader Moni     Onikijipa     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Rueben Parejo     Binta Abubakar Mora     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Olam Food Ingredients     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     John Olajide Adedipe     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Mohammed Lawal     Ifelodun     Kwara 2015     John Dara     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Ahmed Dankaya     Public Holiday     Bolaji Aladie     Tafidan Kaiama     Ola Falade     Sidikat Akaje     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Egbejila     Opobiyi     Doyin Awoyale     Oko Erin     Aliyu Adebayo     Nnazua     AbdulGafar Tosho     Roheemat Hammed     Yekeen Alabi     KWASAA     Senate     Aminat Ahmed     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Popo-Igbonna     NULGE     Yahya Mohammed     Mahee Abdulkadir     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Abraham Ojo     BECE     Garba Ado Sanni     Kwara Restoration Project     Alabi Lawal     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Oye Tinuoye     Aminu Adisa Logun     Malete     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Lai Mohammed     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Ilorin Emirate     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Kwara Teaching Service Commission