The police on Monday arraigned a 30-year-old businesswoman, Ozioma Eke, in a Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, for allegedly defrauding a housewife of N300,000.
The police charged Eke, who lives in Kado village, Abuja, with two counts of criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Ukagha Ijeoma, had told the court that Ms Esther Dibiagwu of Mopol Barracks Dei-dei Abuja, reported the case at Life Camp Police Station on July 9.
She alleged that some time in January, Eke deceitfully and dubiously collected N300,000 from the complainant for a shop in Kado village market.
Ijeoma alleged that the defendant failed to give the complainant the shop or the money back.
She said court that Eke refused to give the complainant neither shop key nor receipt for the payment of the shop.
The offence, she said, contravened the provisions of sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code.
Mrs Charity Nwosu, Counsel to the defendant, made an oral application for the bail of the defendant, citing Sections 35 (4) and 36 (5) of the 1999 Constitution.
Nwosu also cited Sections 158, 161 and 165 (2) of the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act.
She also told the court that the defendant will not jump bail nor intimidate the witness in any further investigation in the case.
The judge, Alhaji Inuwa Maiwada, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N500,000 with a reasonable surety in like sum.
Maiwada ordered that the surety must be a Level 8 civil servant who must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and must verified by the court’s police.
He also ordered that the surety must also submit his first appointment letter, last promotion letter and official identity card to the court registry.
The judge adjourned the matter until Aug. 5 for hearing. (NAN)
