BY TIMOTHY AGBOR, OSOGBO
The Osun State Police Command has dragged two persons, namely Adeyinka Orobiyi and Olawale Oyewale, before a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Osogbo, over allegations of fraud.
Orobiyi, aged 36 and Oyewale, 50, were separately arraigned over the allegation.
Orobiyi, who faced a four-count-charge bordering on illegal conversion, fraud, theft and forgery, was said to have forged a bank draft of the United Bank for Africa sometimes in July, 2022 at Igbona area, Osogbo in a bid to defraud Black Horse Tobacco Limited, represented by Gbemiga Ojewale, of the sum of N2, 454,000 (Two million four hundred and fifty thousand naira).
The charge brought against him read that “Orobiyi Adeyinka, sometime in the month of July, 2022 at Igbona area, Osogbo, Osun State in the Osogbo Magisterial District, did unlawfully convert to your use the sum of N2,454,000 (Two million four hundred and fifty thousand naira only property of Black Horse Tobacco Limited and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code, Cap 34, Volume 11 Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2003.
“Orobiyi Adeyinka, on the same date, time, in the aforementioned magisterial district, did defraud Black Horse Tobacco Limited, represented by Gbemiga Ojewale, of N2,454,000 (Two million four hundred and fifty thousand naira only and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 118 of Criminal Code, Cap 34, Volume 11 Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2003.
“Orobiyi Adeyinka, on the same date and time, in the aforementioned magisterial district, did abuse the office, UBA Bank, by a forged bank draft and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 104 of Criminal Code, Cap 34, Volume 11 Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2003.
“You did steal goods worth N2,454,000 (Two million four hundred and fifty thousand naira) only properties of Black Horse Tobacco Limited and thereby committed an offence under Section 388 and punishable under Section 390 (9) of Criminal Code, Cap 34, Volume 11 Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2003.”
Similarly, Oyewale was docked for allegedly obtaining the sum of N5, 800,000 (Five million, eight hundred thousand naira only) from one Abioye Ponle Gabriel with the pretense that he wanted to buy a landed property for him.
The charge against him read that Olawale Oyewale, sometimes in the month of July, 2022, at Number 4, Koju Foam, Powerline area, Osogbo in the Osogbo Magisterial District, did obtain the sum of N5,800,000 (Five million eight hundred thousand naira only) from one Abioye Ponle Gabriel with the promise of assisting him to buy a complete building, a pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 419 of criminal Code, CAP 34, Volume II Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2002.”
The duo pleaded not guilty to the offences in separate cases. Magistrate Olusola Aluko ordered them to furnish the court with written bail applications.
They were remanded in the Ilesa Correctional Centre.
