62-Year-Old Retired Prison Comptroller Docked Over N8.7M Land Scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) today 21st June 2022, arraigned 62-year-old retired Deputy Comptroller of Correction Service, Kayode Raphael Odeyemi, before Justice M.A. Madugu of an FCT High Court, Bwari Abuja on a two-count charge for offences bordering on land fraud.
Count one of the charges reads, “that you, Kayode Raphael Odeyemi sometime in December 2019 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, by false pretence and with intent to defraud, did obtain the sum of Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N6,500,000.00) only from Joseph N. Emelieze, paid into your First Bank account number 2015894843, under the pretence that the said payment was meant for the purchase of a plot of land situate at Sabon Lugbe, Abuja, a fact which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act”.
In count two, Odeyemi is accused of defrauding Joemelyz Global of the sum of Two Million, Two Hundred Thousand Naira (N2,200,000.00) only which was paid into his Wema Bank account number 0121093181 for the purchase of a plot of land at Sabon Lugbe, Abuja.
He pleaded not guilty to both counts.
Justice Madugu adjourned the matter till 19th September 2022, for commencement of trial and granted the defendant bail in the sum of One Million Naira with two sureties in like sum, one of whom must be a civil servant residing within the jurisdiction of the court.
