{"id":13245,"date":"2024-01-22T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/two-docked-for-allegedly-obtaining-n15m-by-false-pretence\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T13:03:32","slug":"two-docked-for-allegedly-obtaining-n15m-by-false-pretence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/two-docked-for-allegedly-obtaining-n15m-by-false-pretence\/","title":{"rendered":"Two docked for allegedly obtaining N15m by false pretence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A businessman, Azeez Showumi, and a borehole driller, Ademola Akindele, were on Monday arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court for allegedly obtaining N15 million by false pretence.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants, who both live in Lekki, Lagos, are facing trial for conspiracy, obtaining by false pretences, stealing, causing breach of peace and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Prosecutor, ASP Raji Akeem, informed the court that the offences were committed in February 2023 at Chemview Estate, Lekki, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Akeem said that the defendants obtained N15 million from Mr Seun Alimi under the pretence of installing an industrial borehole with potable water supply.<\/p>\n<p>He said that since then, all efforts made by the complainant to get back his money failed, as the defendants kept giving excuses.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecutor, the offences contravene sections 168, 287, 314, 323 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N500,000 each, with two sureties each in like sum and then adjourned the case till March 7 for mention.<\/p>\n<p>Two docked for allegedly obtaining N15m by false pretence<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A businessman, Azeez Showumi, and a borehole driller, Ademola Akindele, were on Monday arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,384,15],"tags":[135,387,180],"class_list":["post-13245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-metro","category-news","tag-court","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}