Lagos debtor arraigned for issuing fake cheque to creditor

📆 7/10/2023 5:02 AM
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A 31-year-old debtor, Musa Ayeni, was on Thursday, arraigned before Chief Magistrate P.E Nwaka, at the Yaba Magistrates’ Court, Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly owing one Awosola Olusola, N1.7m, and for issuing him a fake bank cheque in the Shomolu area of the state.

The Lagos State Police Command arraigned Ayeni on three counts of obtaining money under false pretence and issuing of fake cheque.

According to the prosecutor, Thomas Nurudeen, the defendant, knowing that there was no money in his account, issued a fake cheque of about N2m to the complainant, an amount higher than what he owed. According to him, the offences debtor committed contravened Sections 314 and 319 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State.The charges read in part, “That you, Musa Ayeni, on March 27, 2023, around 2.53pm, at No. 6, Adeola Street, Somolu, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did obtain the sum of N1.

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