Justice M. L. Owolabi of the State High Court, Oyo State on November 27, 2018 convicted and sentenced one Mufutau Ladoja to three months imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretence contrary to Section 419 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap 38, Laws of the Oyo State.
Mufutau who was arraigned the same day (November 27, 2018) by the Ibadan office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a one count amended charge bordering on obtaining under false pretence entered into a plea bargain and was found guilty and convicted accordingly.
He also refunded the total sum of N800, 000 (Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) he obtained to the owner.
The amended charge that earned the convict the jail term reads โthat you Mufutau Ladoja on or about November, 2017 at Ibadan within the jurisdiction of this honourable court with the intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N800, 000 (Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) from one Oluwatobi Olarejawu Oloyede under the false pretence that the money represented payment for the plot of land at Awotan, Apete, Ibadan, which pretence you knew to be false, thereby committed an offenceโ.
