Naira [N5,000,000.00] from one Onuwaje John Omare on the false pretence
of sale of a 700 square meter plot of land in Ambassadors Estate, Landlords
owner-occupier programme in Mbora District, Abuja when you knew you
had no such plot of land and thereby committed an offence contrary to
section 1[1][a] of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences
Act, 2006 and punishable under section 1[3] of the same Act.
COUNT 2
That you, Nwaotule Frank, being the Managing Director of the Light
Maritime Limited] and the Light Maritime Limited sometime in May, 2013
in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital
Territory, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of one hundred and
twenty thousand Naira [N120,000.00] from one Onuwaje John Omare
under the false pretence that the said money is payment for Application
form and Certificate of Occupancy for a purported 700 square meter plot of
land in Ambassador’s Estate, Landlord’s owner occupier programme in
Mbora District, Abuja, when you knew you had no such plot of land and
thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1[1][a] of the Advance Fee
Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under
sec 1[3] of the same Act.
Each of the defendants pleaded not guilty to the 2 counts; the 1st defendant
represented the 2nd defendant and pleaded not guilty on its behalf. At the
trial, which started on 28/11/2014 and ended on 9/3/2016, the prosecution
called 2 witnesses while the 1st defendant testified for the defence.
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