{"id":50547,"date":"2024-09-24T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lagos-man-docked-over-alleged-n1-8m-fraud\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:04:41","slug":"lagos-man-docked-over-alleged-n1-8m-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lagos-man-docked-over-alleged-n1-8m-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos man docked over alleged N1.8m fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A 43-year-old man, Adekunle Abodunrin, on Tuesday, appeared before a Badagry Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court, Lagos, for alleged N1.8 million fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Abodunrin, whose address was not provided, is facing a three-count charge of fraud, stealing and breach of peace.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosecutor, ASP Clement Okuoimose told the court that the defendant committed the offences on Aug. 2, 2023, at Owode Plank Market, Luri Bus stop, Badagry, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Okuoimose said that the defendant obtained N1.8 million from the complainant, Mr Kasim Saka, to help him buy some planks from Ondo State but failed to do so.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the defendant converted the money to his personal use.<\/p>\n<p>Okuoimose said the defendant conducted himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace by fraudulently obtaining the money from the complainant.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Magistrate, Mr A. J. Aina granted the defendant bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.<\/p>\n<p>Aina said the sureties must reside within the court\u2019s jurisdiction and provide evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government.<\/p>\n<p>He adjourned the case until November 11 for mention, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Lagos man docked over alleged N1.8m fraud<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 43-year-old man, Adekunle Abodunrin, on Tuesday, appeared before a Badagry Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court, Lagos, for alleged N1.8 million fraud.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,384,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-metro","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50547","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=50547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}