Justice Babs Kwuemi of the Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, convicted and sentenced one Oloruntoba Olumuyiwa, who claims to be a supervisor with an investment company in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun state, to two years in imprisonment for offences bordering on forgery.
The charge on which he was convicted reads, ”That you Oloruntoba Olumuyiwa and Alade Bamidele (still at large) between 2015 and 2019, in Ado Ekiti, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, fraudulently forged a Guarantee Trust Bank Cheque dated 23rd February, 2016 in favour of Mr. Oluwole Olasunkanmi in the sum of Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand Naira (N870, 000) and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1(2) (b) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Cap M17, Laws of the Federation 2004”.
Based on his guilty plea, the prosecution counsel, Abdulrasheed Lanre Suleman prayed the court to convict and sentence the defendant.
Consequently, Justice Kwuemi convicted and sentenced him to two years imprisonment.
The defendant was also ordered to restitute his victim, one Oluwole Olasunkanmi in the sum of N450, 000 through the EFCC, and liquidate the outstanding balance of N1, 962,000 over a period of 12 months from the date he completes his prison term.