A former member of the Kwara
State House of Assembly, Muhammed Adebayo was arrested by EFCC on a six-count
charge of land fraud.
He was charged on Thursday
before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court,
Two of the charges
reads:
“That you, Mohammed Adebayo, sometimes in July 2013 in Ilorin within the
jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud, obtained the sum
of N950,000 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) only from one Mary Omowunmi
Kolade on the false pretence that three plots of land (situated at Molete, Moro
Local Government Area of Kwara State) which you sold to her belonged to you, a
representation you knew to be false punishable under section 1 of the Advance
Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences.”
Adebayo pleaded “not
guilty” to the charge.
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 N1million with two sureties in like sum.
The case has been adjourned
till September 24, 2019 for commencement of trial.
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