A final year student of the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Ayodeji Aderobaki has appeared before a magistrate’s court in Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly defrauding one Tobbena Okolo, of N4.7m.
The PUNCH reported that the 400-level student of the Department of Philosophy, faced three counts of conspiracy, obtaining by false pretences and stealing.
He was alleged to have committed the crime against one Okolo in August 2021.
The charges read in part, “That you, Aderobaki Ayodeji, and others still at large, sometime in August 2021 on Adeyinka Okunade Street, FESTAC Town, in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area, Lagos State, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire together to commit a felony, to wit, obtaining money under false pretences and stealing, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.
“That you, Aderobaki Ayodeji, and others still at large, on the same date, time and place in the aforementioned magisterial district, did steal the sum of N4,700,000 property of one Tobbena Newton Okolo, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.”
He pleaded not guilty to the charges.
However, Ayodeji was granted bail by the magistrate in the sum of N2m with two sureties in like sum as the matter was adjourned till March 9, 2022.
