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IN THE
ISTRATE COU
: DELTA STATE O F NIGERIA
IN THE EFF URUN MAGISTE
DISTRICT
HOLDEN A EFFURUN
BEFORE HIS WORSHIP E .A. ODJUGO ESO.. C HIEF MAGISTRATE (SPECIAL
GRADE)
ON WEDNE DAY THE 28TH DAY OF APRIL. 2022
SUIT NO: ME/120Cl2021
BETW EEN:COMMISSIONER OF POLICE.
COMPLAINANT
AND
EFE NAYA JOSEPH (F)
DEFENDANT
Defendant present.
lnsp. Lawrence Lucky for the prosecution.
Court. Judgment is delivered in the open Court today. The prosecution has
proven it's case beyond reasonable doubt. The Defendant is found GUILTy in
respect of count I and ll as charged.
JUDG MENT
The Defendant is facing a two count charge to wit: (a) that sometime in the
month of June, 2021 at POWA tt/arket by DSC Roundabout, Effurun, the
defendant did obtain the sum of one l\{illion, Five Hundred and Eighty six
thousand, five hundred naira (N1,586,500=) from one Doris Napoleon under the
pretence that she was going to supply her bags of rice, beans and groundnut oil,
which she failed to do, a representation which she knew was false, and, hereby
committed an offence punishable under S. 419 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap.
c21, vol" l, Laws of Delta state,2006, and, (b) that on the 17th of July,2021, at
Effurun, the Defendant obtained the sum of Nine Hundred and Thirty Eight
Thousand, Five Hundred Naira (N938,500) from one Peace Kidochukwu
Gbakerim (f), with the representation that she was going to supply her forty six
(46) bags of rice, which she failed to do, a representation which she knew to be
false, and thereby committed an offence under S.41g of the Criminal Code Law,
supra.
The Defendant thereafter, pleaded, NOT GUILTY to the two-count charge.
Then, the prosecution called three witnesses, PW1 PW3, while the Defendant
testified as DW1 in her defence, and called no witness.
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