A self-proclaimed building contractor, Dehinbo Olatunji, who allegedly obtained N39, 730,000 under false pretence, was on Thursday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.
Olatunji, 38, was arraigned by the Police before Chief Magistrate Folashade Botoku on a two-count charge of obtaining and stealing.
Prosecuting Inspector Haruna Ibrahim alleged that the defendant committed the offences sometime in June 2018, at Wasimi Maryland, in Lagos.
Ibrahim said Olatunji obtained N39, 730,000 from one Emmanuel Sunday, who deposited it in the defendant’s Zenith Bank account number bearing the name ‘Dehinbo Anthony Olatunji.’
The court heard that the defendant collected the sum following an agreement that he would complete Sunday’s building project at Calabar, the Cross River State capital, but he failed to do so.
According to the prosecutor, the offences contravened sections 314 and 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Olatunji pleaded “Not guilty”.
Chief Magistrate Botoku granted him bail in the sum of N1million, with two sureties in the like sum, among other conditions.
The case continues on February 14.