An estate developer, Adamu Mu’azu, was Thursday, arraigned in a Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court for alleged criminal breach of trust and cheating.
He is being accused of allegedly duping his victim to the tune of N10m.
The Prosecutor, Osa Oyeyemi said that one Gbenga Adeyemi of Lugbe, Abuja, had on October 22, written a petition to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 7, noting that the accused collected N10 million from the complainant for sale of his land situated at Lokogoma, Abuja.
Mu’azu, who resides in Nyanya, Abuja, was arraigned on a two-count charge of criminal breach of trust and cheating.
According to the Prosecutor, the complainant, while waiting for the land documents, found out that the said land which was sold to him by the accused did not belong to him.
He said that the complainant confronted the accused to refund his money, but the accused gave him a dud cheque and kept on avoiding him.
Oyeyemi noted that the offences contravened Sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty.
The Magistrate, Shuaibu Ahmed, granted bail to the accused in the sum of N2m with a surety in like sum, stressing that the surety should reside within the court’s jurisdiction.
Ahmed, however, adjourned the case till November 26 for mention.
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