The Ogun State Police Command has arraigned one Mrs. Funmilayo Ayodele before a Magistrates’s court sitting in Abeokuta, the state capital.
40-year-old Ayodele was dragged before the court on Friday for allegedly refusing to pay back a loan of N600,000 she borrowed from a Cherubim and Seraphim church cooperative society at Lantoro in Abeokuta.
The police said Ayodele was docked on a three-count charge bordering on theft, fraud and breach of public peace.
But the woman has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
According to the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Olu-Balogun Lawrence, the defendant allegedly borrowed the money in February 2019 from one Pastor Michael Oguntade, promising to pay back in August same year after starting a business.
However, the prosecution counsel said Ayodele, instead of refunding the money, resorted to threatening the pastor with thugs in his house which prompted the lender to report the case to the police.
She has since been granted bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum.
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The Magistrate, Olakunleyin Oke, said the sureties must be persons living within the court jurisdiction with evidence of tax payments to the Ogun Government.
The case has been adjourned until February 21 for trial.
