Man Dumps Sister In Prison After Standing As Surety

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A 40-year old woman, one Patience Jackson, tested a bitter pill after she went to the police and stood as surety for his brother who was involved in a criminal offence in Lagos.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that after the brother, Mr Aniete Jackson, regained his freedom he ran away and left his sister to her fate.

The incident happened at Ajao Estate Police Division where Aniete was detained for defrauding one Uchenna Obigbo to the tune of N1m under false pretense.

Later, the police asked Patience to produce his brother, Aniete, as she had promised to make him available any time the police asked her to do so at the station. Unknown to Patience, his brother had calculated that if he was taken to court, he will be sent to prison and had no money to refund to the complainant, Uchenna Obigbo, in the matter. He secretly parked some of his belongings and ran away without informing her sister who stood as surety for him at the police station.

P.M.EXPRESS gathered that when the police waited for Patience to produce Aniete as the guarantor, she told the IPO that he had ran away without informing her and will not be able to produce him. The police then arrested her and charged before the Isolo Magistrates court for aiding his escape to pervert the course of justice.
She pleaded not guilty.

The prosecutor, Mrs. Rita Momah, did not oppose her being granted bail but asked the court for adjournment for trial.
Thus, the Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. O.A. Adegite, granted her bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum.
She was remanded in prison custody pending when she will perfect her bail condition.
The matter was adjourned till 27th September, 2018.

P.M.EXPRESS scooped that when Aniete was contacted and informed that his sister had been remanded in prison custody for standing as surety for him at the police station and that he should show up; he reportedly declined advising that his sister should sort herself out because he did not want to show up and be  sent to prison and that she should manage the situation by paying the money to the complainant, Uchenna Obigbo.