A 34-year-old woman, Nofisat Abolanle, was on Thursday arraigned before the Ogba Magistrates’ Court sitting in the Ikeja area of Lagos State for allegedly stealing an Automated Teller Machine card belonging to one Ibrahim Oluwole.
She was said
to have used the card to transfer N790,000 to her bank account.
Abolanle was
arraigned before Magistrate M.O Joseph on two counts.
The police
prosecutor, Inspector, Patricia Ojeh, told the court that the defendant
committed the offence on February 9, 2023.
The charge
read, “That you, Nofisat Abolanle, and others now at large on February 9, 2023,
around 4pm at Ladipo Mushin, Lagos State in the Lagos Magisterial District, did
conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit stealing and thereby
committed an offence punishable under Section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos
State of Nigeria, 2015.
“That you,
Nofisat Abolanle, and others still at large on the same time and date, time and
place, in the aforesaid Magisterial District, did steal UBA ATM card, property
of one Ibrahim Oluwole, which you fraudulently used to transfer N790,000 to
your Access Bank account, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section
280 and punishable under Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of
Nigeria, 2015.
However, the
defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges against her.
The
Magistrate, M. O Joseph, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N200,000 with
two sureties in like sum.
The case was
adjourned till June 21, 2023.
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