A 62-year-old retired Deputy Comptroller of Correction, Kayode Raphael Odeyemi has being arraigned before Justice M.A. Madugu of the FCT High Court, Bwari Abuja .
He was arraigned on Tuesday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Command on a two count charge for offences bordering on land fraud.
But, he pleaded not guilty to the two counts charge. The trial Court judge, Justice Madugu allowed his bail application and admitted him to bail in the sum of One Million Naira with two sureties in like sum.
One of the sureties, the judge said must be a civil servant residing within the jurisdiction of Court.
According to the charge, Kayode Raphael Odeyemi was said to have sometime in December 2019 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, by false pretense and with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N6,500,000 (Six Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira) from Joseph N. Emelieze.
The money was paid into Odeyemi’s First Bank account number 2015894843, under the pretense that the said payment was meant for purchase of plot of land situate at Sabon Lugbe, Abuja, a fact which he knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other 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 N2,200,000 (Two Million Two Hundred Thousand Naira) which was paid into his Wema Bank account number 0121093181 for the purchase of a plot of land at Sabon Lugbe, Abuja.
The case has been adjourned to September 19, 2022 for commencement of trial.