An Igbosere Magistrates' Court sitting in Lagos on Thursday remanded a couple in jail guardianship for supposedly imitating previous Governor of Lagos State, Chief Bola Tinubu to fraud him. The couple, Abioye Junaid, 41, and Fausat Junaid, 39, are confronting trial on an eight-number charge verging on scheme, extortion, taking and mimic. The prosecutor, DSP Charles Odii, told the court that the couple others still everywhere schemed and submitted the ýalleged offenses between October 2014 and December 2015, at their home, No. 7 Ayeola St., Oke Balogun, Epe, Lagos. Odii
said that Junaid was a security operator with Eco Electricity Company at Sangotedo Epe, while his significant other was a government employee with the Epe Local Government individually. "The charged had erroneously introduced themselves as Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Chief Mrs Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, the Iyaloja-General of Nigeria,'' Odii said. He said that the blamed got the aggregate for N15 million from one Ambali Abiodun, under affection of making him an official in the Lagos State Government. The prosecutor additionally affirmed that the pair got the entirety of N70 million from one Otuniyi Adeniyi, under appearance of making him the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a representation they knew was false. The prosecutor further expressed that the charged stole the cash from their casualties. As per the prosecutor, the offenses perpetrated contradicted Sections 285 (5), 312 (2), 378 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The pair argued not blameworthy to the offenses. Mr Emmanuel Bayen, direction to the charged, asked the court to allow them abandon liberal terms. In her managing, the directing Magistrate, Mrs A. O. Sholadoye allowed them N2 million safeguard each with two dependable sureties each in like aggregate. The justice said that one of the sureties must be a level 16 officer or above in the Lagos State Civil Service. She said the other surety must be a landed property proprietor whose authentication of possession would be checked at the Lagos State Land Registry. The justice requested that the blamed be remanded in jail pending the meeting of safeguard conditions. She, be that as it may, dismissed the case till Aug. 26 for notice.
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