Afrigather Abdulrazak Lawal, a 22-year-old service provider appeared earlier than a Kado Grade I Space Courtroom in Abuja on Wednesday, February 15, for allegedly defrauding a industrial intercourse employee.
The defendant was accused of refusing to pay the intercourse employee for her providers and stealing N266,000 in cell phones from her.
Lawal of Jabi Daki-biyu, Abuja, was charged with deception and stealing by the police.
Mr. Stanley Nwafoaku, the Prosecution Counsel, knowledgeable the courtroom that on January 30 at 3:50 p.m, the complainant, Ms. Charity Joseph of Jabi Masalachi, Abuja, reported the case to Life Camp Police Station.
Nwafoaku mentioned that the defendant sought the intercourse employee for her providers on January 25 at about midnight.
He mentioned the defendant bargained with the complainant to pay N10,000 for the evening at White Home Lodge Jabi Daki-biyu, Abuja.
The prosecution claimed that the defendant took the complainant’s iPhone, which was value N266,000.
Nwafoaku additional instructed the courtroom that the defendant didn’t pay the agreed-upon N10,000 and that when Lawal was detained, all efforts to retrieve the telephones failed.
He acknowledged that the defendant acknowledged promoting the telephones for N35,000 to 1 Abba, who fled to Katsina State.
Based on Nwafoaku, the offense violated sections 322 and 288 of the legal code.
The defendant, alternatively, pled not responsible to the accusation.
Charity Nwosu, the defendants’ protection lawyer, utilized for bail on essentially the most beneficiant phrases potential.
Nwosu made the movement, citing Part 36 of the 1999 Structure and Part 158 of the Administration of Prison Justice Act (ACJA) 2015, assuring that if bail is granted, the defendant is not going to evade it.
The prosecution lawyer, alternatively, didn’t oppose the protection lawyer’s bail movement.
The defendant was granted bail within the sum of N150,000 with one surety in the identical quantity by the Choose, Muhammad Wakili.
Wakili ordered that the surety give a BVN printout, a present passport {photograph}, and a sound identification card, which the courtroom registrar should confirm.
The courtroom postponed the listening to till March 1.
