A housing agent, Israel Obidozie, is to spend festival period in Prison following his arraignment for allegedly obtaining N610,000 rent from three different persons in Enugu State.
Magistrate, C.O. Ejeagbasi, of the Enugu South Magistrates’ Court, ordered that the defendant be remanded in Enugu Correctional Centre.
The magistrate also ordered the Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Rosemary Ojobo, to contact the defendant’s family on how to pay the complainants their money.
“The main interest of the court is not just sending the defendant to prison, but how to recover the monies from him.
“Therefore, make sure his family and relatives are here on the next adjourned date,” the court ruled.
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The magistrate, thereafter, adjourned the matter till January 28, 2022, for reviewing of facts and sentencing.
During his arraignment, the defendant, who had no counsel representing him, pleaded guilty to the one count charge, bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.
The police told the court that the defendant had, on July and August, at Gariki Awkunanaw in Enugu South Local Government Area, collected the sum of N170,000 to rent out a room and parlour apartment for one Peace Uba.
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She listed other monies collected by the defendant to include: N200,000 from one Christiana Osuji for a two-bedroom apartment and 240,000 from one Paulinus Onyia for another two-bedroom flat.
The prosecution counsel said that the defendant, after collecting the money from the complainants, disappeared until he was arrested on Dec. 19.
According to Mrs Rosemary Ojobo, the offences are punishable under Section 386 of the Criminal Code, Revised Laws of Enugu State, 2004.
