Female Manager Faces Trial For Allegedly Stealing Employer’s N70m

BY PAUL IYOGHOJIE

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force Intelligence Department, FID, Obalende, Lagos have arrested a female Manager, Isiaka Adijat and her accomplice, Modupe Ojo and dragged them before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos for allegedly conniving to defraud one Alhaja Fausat Morenikeji Yusuf of the sum of N70 million from sales instead of remitting the money into their employer’s account.

Police alleged that trouble started for the defendants when the complainant left the first defendant, Adijat, her sales manager on trust with her shop located at 243 and 245 Agege Motor Road, Mushin, Lagos with goods valued at millions of Naira and travelled abroad.

Police further alleged that before the complainant returned, Adijat allegedly sold her employer’s goods valued at N70 million and allegedly converted the money to her use instead of remitting the money into her employer’s account.

Police said that Adijat diverted the sum of N20 million through the account of her accomplice, Modupe and used the N70 million to build a mansion in her village in Ibadan, Oyo State.

The defendants were charged on a two count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing.

Police prosecuting Counsel, Friday Mameh told the Court that the defendants committed the offence between 2022 and 2024.

Mameh informed the court that the defendants betrayed the trust reposed in them by the complainant.

He said the offences, the defendants committed were punishable under sections 287 and 328(1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The defendants, however pleaded not guilty to the charges and the presiding Magistrate, Mrs Gbajumo Ayoku granted them bail in the sum of N3.5m each with two surties in like sum.

Gbajumo them adjourned the case till March 27, 2026 for the continuation of the trial.