NAN-H-65
Impersonation
Ifetedo (Osun), Sept. 5, 2016 (NAN) A 30-year-old man, Mr Jamiu Ibrahim, charged with impersonation, was on Wednesday arraigned at an Osun Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ifetedo.
The Police Prosecutor, Insp. Monday Ojiezele, told the court that the accused posed as a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) officer and obtained N448, 100 under false pretence from one Emmanuel Abolarin and Joshua Adeyemi.
He said that the accused collected the money in the guise that he secure immigration job for Abolarin and Adeyemi, but converted it to his own use.
Ojiezele said that Ibrahim committed the offence at about 6 p.m. at Odemuyiwa Village Junction, Garage Olode in Ifetedo, Ife South Local Government Area of Osun.
According to him, the offence is contrary to section 382, and punishable under sections 180 (2), 390 and 419 of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol 11, Laws of Osun, 2002.
The defence counsel, Mr Sunday Olagbaju, applied for the bail for the accused in a “most liberal term’’ and pledged that his client would not jump bail.
The Magistrate, Mrs Dorcas Ajiboye, granted bail to the accused in the sum of N500, 000, with two sureties in like sum.
Ajiboye ordered that the sureties should swear to an affidavit of means, be resident within the court’s jurisdiction, be a blood relation to the accused and would have their addresses verified by a police officer.
She also ordered that the accused and the sureties should produce two recent passport photographs of themselves.
Ajiboye adjourned the case till Oct. 26 for hearing. (NAN)
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