MICHAEL AKINOLA
Police operatives from the Commissioner of Police Special Squad 2 of the Lagos State Command have arrested a 40-year old woman, Mujedat Saheed, for allegedly conspiring and swindling Ifelodun Yam Flours Association to the tune of over N33.9m under false pretence.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Ketu Mile 12 area of Lagos, where the suspect, Mujedat Saheed, contacted the association leaders and convinced them that she will supply them the items and they believed her.
However, after they paid her the money in December, 2023, she bolted away and did not supply the items and disconnected every communication she had with them.
The matter was reported to the Commissioner of Police Special Squad, who moved into action and eventually arrested the suspect. She was then detained at the Command’s headquarters for investigation over her conduct.
After rounds of interrogation, the Police found her culpable and consequently charged her before the Ogba Magistrate Court for the alleged offence.
Part of the charges read :
That you, Mujedat Saheed and others still at large, sometime between December, 2023 and May, 2004 in Ketu, Mile 12 Area of Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit obtaining money under false presence and Stealing and thereby committed an offence Punishable under Section 411 The Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2015.”
COUNT 2: That you, Mujedat Saheed and others still at large, on the same date time and place, in the aforementioned Magisterial District, did make use of Stanbic IBTC Bank account No. 00480-49662, Name: Mujedat Saheed Omewumi and obtained the sum of Thirty-Three Million, Nine Hundred and Seventy-Two Thousand Naira (N33,972,000) from Ifelodun Yam Flours Association under the pretence of bringing yam flours to the association and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 314 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.”
However, she pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Inspector Edema Mojirade, asked the Court to give a date for hearing since she pleaded not guilty to enable the Police to prove that she actually committed the alleged offence.
The Presiding Magistrate, S.O. Salihu, granted her bail with two sureties, who must show evidence of means of livelihood and tax payment while addresses will be verified by the Court.
The matter was adjourned for mention while the defendant was remanded in custody at the correctional center at Kirikiri town, Lagos, pending when she will perfect her bail conditions.