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A 26-year-old woman, Chiduma Odiatu, is risking an 18-year jail term for allegedly defrauding a job seeker of N250,000, contrary to sections 287 and 314 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
The police on Thursday arraigned Odiatu, whose residential address was not given, at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on two-count charge of stealing and obtaining money under false pretences.
Odiatu allegedly committed the offences on August 15 in Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty.
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Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Benson Emuerhi said that the defendant allegedly obtained N250,000 from the complainant, Peace Okwudiuche, with an assurance of getting her a job at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), a representation she knew to be false.
The prosecutor said the defendant stole N250,000 from the complainant after failing to get her the job at NTA.
He said that the alleged offences violated sections 287 and 314 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
Chief Magistrate Mrs. Olufunke Sule-Amzat granted the defendant N50,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.
She said the sureties must be employed and show evidence of two years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government as part of the bail conditions.
Sule-Amzat adjourned the case till Mach 5.
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