Attempts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to arraign alleged crooked estate agent, Chief Muritala Adebayo, popularly called Oloriebi Ajah, has suffered a setback after he failed to show up in court.
The anti-graft agency had, in the charge designated ID/22690c/23, filed a three-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence against Adebayo before an Ikeja Special Offences Court.
According to the charge, Adebayo allegedly obtained the sum of N19 million from one Mr Gafar Ademolake on the pretext of procuring 21 plots of land, a representation he knew to be false.
When the case was called, the counsel for the EFCC, Mr B.M. Isa apologized for the absence of the defendant.
Isa hinted to the court that the defendant, who was on administrative bail, was informed to appear in court but failed to do so.
“The EFCC will do what is necessary to apprehend the defendant and bring him to court,” he said.
According to the petition attached to the charge and signed by S. B. Olawunmi sometime in 2015, Mr Gafar Abiodun Ademolake and Aminat (his wife) purchased 22 plots of land at Agoro family land, Ayegbami village, Ibeju Agbe, Ibeju Local Government, Lagos, Kasumu, Kasumu Sarumi family land, Ilamija Nla, Epe Local Government Area, Lagos State, Ashafa Mogaji family land, Oke-Iran village at Okun Ajah, Eti Osa Local Government Area, Lagos State for the sum of N30, 000, 000 (Thirty Million Naira only).
The petition consequently stated that Adebayo showed them some land and the petitioners spent a lot of money for developing the properties.
The petitioners alleged that after spending their money on the properties, when they got to there, they discovered that Chief Adebayo had sold their properties without their consent.
They further noted that when they asked Chief Adebayo about their predicament when they got to the land, he pleaded with them and offered an 'unreasonable explanation and took them to another property, instructed his boys to measure the land and thereafter, issued a receipt covering the total amount paid' by the petitioners.
But the petitioners noted that subsequently when they got to the second property, they discovered that they had been defrauded, as Chief Adebayo gave them land that was already sold to someone else.
According to them, all efforts to recover their money from him have been matched with alleged intimidation and threat to life.
The court, presided over by Justice Mojisola Dada, adjourned the case for an unspecified period.
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