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Ex-Kwara Assembly Lawmaker In Land Fraud Scandal, Sells Fake Plots Of Land For N950,000
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Office, on Thursday, August 1 arraigned an immediate past member of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Honourable Muhammed Adebayo, before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court on a six-count charge bordering on land fraud.
One of the charges reads: “That you, Mohammed Adebayo, sometimes in July 2013 in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this court with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N950,000 from one Mary Omowunmi Kolade on the false pretence that three plots of land which you sold to her belonged to you, a representation you knew to be false and punishable under Section 1 of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences.”
He pleaded “not guilty” to the charges.
Counsel for the EFCC, S.T. Ola, thereafter, urged to court to fix a date for the commencement of trial.
Defence counsel, M.D. Yusuf, however, moved the bail application of his client.
Justice Oyinlola granted the defendant bail in the sum of N1 million with two sureties in like sum.
The case has been adjourned till September 24 for commencement of trial.
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