A socialite, Mary Masirat Akerele (46) has been arraigned before Justice Abiodun Akinyemi of the Ogun state high court 4, Abeokuta, on a five count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of Thirty five million five hundred and twenty thousand naira (N35, 520,000).
Mary was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office on Monday, February 22, 2021.
She was alleged to have collected the said sum in installments from one Alhaja Oladoja Abike for the purpose of supplying four truck-load of rice from a rice milling company at Bida, Niger state but diverted the funds.
One of the charge reads: " That you Mary Masirat Akerele (trading under the name and style of Goodness of Jesus Global Ventures) on or about the 19th day of September, 2018 at Abeokuta within the Abeokuta Judicial Division of the Honourable Court, fraudulently converted to the your own use the sum of Eleven Million Naira (N11, 000,000.00) only property of Fausia Abike Oladoja and thereby committed an offence of stealing contrary to Section 390(9) of the Criminal Code, Cap. 30, laws of Ogun State, 2006”.
However, Mary pleaded 'not guilty' when the charge was read to her.
Counsel to the defendant, H. A. Omikunle made an oral application for his client's bail, but was posed by counsel to EFCC, Shamsuddeen Bashir on the bases of the defendant's failure to keep the terms of the administrative bail earlier granted to her.
This case was however adjourned by Justice Akinyemi till March 4 for determination of the bail application and ordered the remand of the defendant in the Nigerian Correctional centre, Ibara, Abeokuta.
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