On Monday, a 35-year-old businessman, Wasiu Saka, appeared in a Karu Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, for allegedly duping his customer of N1.1 million.
Saka, a businessman dealing in Timber and a resident of Kafanchan, Kaduna State, faces a criminal breach of trust, cheating and criminal misappropriation, offences he denied committing.
The prosecutor, Ayotunde Adeyanju, told the court that the victim, Ibrahim Momoh, reported the matter at the Karu Police Station on June 8.
Adeyanju said the complainant alleged that he entrusted N1.1 million to the defendant in agreement for the supply of timber.
He said the defendant, with the intent to cheat the complainant, failed to supply the agreed timber and converted the said money into his personal use.
The prosecutor said the defendant had refused to pick up the complainant’s calls until he was traced and arrested on June 8.
According to him, the offences contravene Sections 312, 322 and 309 of the Penal Code.
The judge, Inuwa Maiwada, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N1.5 million and one surety in like sum.
Maiwada said the surety must be a civil servant of grade level 10.
He adjourned the case until July 7 for a hearing. (NAN)
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