Breaking: Fraudster to pay N500,000 bail over N9,000 fraud

Magistrate T.A. Anjorin-Ajose of Tinbu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos has granted a 32-year-old man, Ogbonna Iteh, who allegedly possessed fake $200 and defrauded a woman of N9,000 to a N500,000 bail  and two sureties as condition for the bail..
Magistrate T.A. Anjorin-Ajose also ordered the defendant to produce two sureties as condition for the bail.
He said that one of the sureties must be a blood relation of the defendant and the other, a civil servant, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.
Iteh is facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, fraud and possession of fake currency.
He, however, pleaded not guilty to the offences.
The prosecutor, Ajaga Agboko, told the court that the defendant and one other person at large conspired to defraud one Faith Samuel of N9000.
He said that Iteh committed the offences on November 13 at Abijo Lekki, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos.
He stated, “Iteh’s accomplice (who drove their vehicle), gave a ride to Samuel, who was taking her children to school.
“In the vehicle, Iteh said that he just returned from abroad and God sent him to help the complainant; he gave her $200 and told her to bring any amount she had in naira.
“Samuel told them she had only N9,000 in her account; the duo told her to go and withdraw it; they followed her to a bank; she withdrew the money and gave it to them.
“The duo left; the complainant went into the bank to change the $200 but was told that it was fake.
“Samuel traced them back to where they picked her and saw only the defendant where he was trying to defraud another woman, she raised the alarm and he was caught.”
Agboko said the offences contravened Sections 314, 329 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Anjorin-Ajose adjourned the case until December 5 for substantive hearing.