A 54-year-old engineer, Chikezie Sibeudu, was yesterday arraigned before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for alleged N1 million fraud.
Sibeudu, who lives at Alago Meji, Yaba, is facing a one-count charge of obtaining by false pretences, but he pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutor Thomas Nurudeen alleged that the accused defrauded Mr. David Kehinde
in July at 62, Ojuelegba Road, Surulere, Lagos.
He said the complainant (Kehinde) supplied the accused buckets of paint worth N1.7 million, but the accused paid him N700,000 and refused to pay the balance.
Nurudeen said the accused paid the N700,000 in July and promised to pay the balance before October.
“My Lord, the accused did not make any other payment. He closed his office, switched off his phones and was unavailable till the police arrested him,” he alleged.
Chief Magistrate K.B. Ayeye granted the accused bail in the sum of N250,000 with one surety in the like sum.
She ordered that the surety should be employed and show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government.
The case continues on February 27.
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