The Police on Tuesday arraigned a 70-year-old herbalist, Alidu Afolabi, in an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, for allegedly defrauding two brothers of N18m.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Afolabi, a herbalist from Aba Paanu, Ilebu area of Ibadan, was arraigned on a two-count charge of obtaining money under false pretenses and stealing.The prosecutor, Inspector Sunday Ogunremi, told the court that Afolabi fraudulently obtained the sum from two brothers, Rasheed Alimi and Dauda Alimi.
“Afolabi
collected the money from the two brothers who allegedly wanted Afolabi to
perform money-making rituals for them and under false pretense to double the
money for them,” Ogunremi said.
He alleged
that the accused committed the offence sometime in April at about
10.00a.m. at Ado’s Compound, Oke-Ado, Ibadan, where he was a tenant.
Ogunremi
said the offence contravened sections 390 (9) and 419 of the Criminal Code Cap
38, Vol. II, Laws of Oyo State 2000.
The
accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
The
Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Abiona Richard, granted the accused bail in the sum of
N9m with two sureties in like sum.
Mrs.
Richard said one of the sureties must be a blood relation and civil servant on
Grade Level 09, while the second must have landed property with Certificate of
Occupancy.
She
adjourned the case till November 21.
(NAN)
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