Adams Adei allegedly took 106-year-old Jimoh Abaoba?s N2.5 million and failed to deliver the car
A 37-year-old car dealer, Adams Adei, was on Wednesday arraigned in Lagos for allegedly duping a 106-year-old traditional ruler of N2.5 million.
Adei, who appeared before Magistrate O.O. Olatunji of an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, was alleged to have defrauded Jimoh Abaoba, the Baale of Okere town in Ikeja.
The accused was docked on a three-count charge of fraud, stealing and obtaining money under pretence.
The police prosecutor, Isaac Aminu, told the court that the accused presented himself as someone who could help the traditional ruler to buy a car.
?The accused told the 106-year-old traditional ruler that he was in a position to buy a Toyota Sequia Jeep for him, a representation he knew to be false,?? he said.
He said that the crime, committed on June 8, contravened Sections 285, 312 and 409 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2011.
Adei, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was granted bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum.
The matter has been adjourned till August 3, for mention.
