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Stock broker in
court over theft
of N21.2m
shares
By Onozure Dania
LAGOS—A 59-year-old stock
broker, Kayode Awotile, who
allegedly obtained N21.2 million
worth of shares from a
businessman under false
pretences, was yesterday
arraigned before an Igbosere
Magistratess Court, in Lagos.
Awotile is facing a four-count
charge of fraud, theft and
issuance of dud cheque.
The prosecutor, Inspector
Steven Molo, told the court that
the defendant committed the
alleged offences between
October and November 2012, at
Marina, Lagos.
He said Awotile obtained
different types of shares which
included Nigeria Breweries,
Access Bank Plc, Icon Insurance
Plc and Continental Re-
Insurance Plc shares, from the
complainant, Mr. Pascal Okezie,
under guise of trading with them
at the Nigeria Stock Exchange,
NSE, market.
He said the defendant did not
trade with the shares as promised
but converted it to his own use.
The prosecutor said all the
shares were valued at N21.2
million, property of Mr. Okezie.
Molo said the defendant issued
three different cheques worth
N5.5 million to the complainant
to offset the said money, but the
cheques were dishonoured on
presentation due to insufficient
funds in his account.
Molo said Awotile knew that
the representation he made was
false.
According to the prosecutor, the
offences are punishable under
Sections 287, 312 (3) and 411 of
the Criminal Law of Lagos State
2015.
The defendant pleaded not
guilty to the charge and the
Magistrate, Mrs H. O. Omisore,
granted him bail in the sum of
N5 million with two sureties in
like sum, and adjourned the case
till September 10 for mention.
By Peter Duru
MAKURDI—A 51-year-old
Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Catering and
Hotel Management, Benue State
Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, Andrew
Ogbuja, has been nabbed and
dragged to court for allegedly
raping his 13 years old
housemaid.
Mr. Ogbuja’s teenage son,
Victor, was also alleged to have
been part of the sexual
molestation of the victim, but is
now at large.
Andrew Ogbuja, who was
arraigned before a Makurdi
Upper Area Court on Monday,
was arrested last Friday after the
victim’s family raised the alarm.
When the case came up, the
accused pleaded with the judge
to temper justice with mercy,
asking to be granted bail so he
can go back home to have the
matter resolved amicably,
considering his status, especially
as he was caught in the act.
The accused, who spoke
through his counsel, David Ojile,
equally promised to take full
responsibility for the treatment of
the victim, saying it was a family
matter.
His plea was, however, rejected
by the trial judge, Mr. Sam
Kwen, who ordered the lecturer
remanded at Makurdi Federal
Prisons.
The case
Earlier the Police prosecutor,
Inspector Patrick Sunday, told the
court that on August 8, at about
12 noon, the International
Federation of Women Lawyers,
Benue State chapter, in company
of one Rose Abah of Ogene
Amadu Edumoga, Okpokwu
Local Government Area of the
state, reported the matter at the
Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department, CIID,
of the state police command.
According to the prosecutor,
“from the First Information
Report, FIR, before the court,
Mrs. Abah claimed that
sometime in February, when her
13-year-old daughter was sick
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Senior Lecturer, son rape 13-year-old maid
and admitted at Federal Medical
Centre, Makurdi, she told her
that when she was staying with
her cousin-sister, Felicia Ogbuja
in Ugbokolo town between 2013
and 2015, her son, Victor Ogbuja,
raped her.
“She further said that her
cousin’s husband, Andrew
Ogbuja, also had canal
knowledge of her.”
He said during police
investigation, the said Andrew
Ogbuja was arrested, while the
said Victor Ogbuja was at large,
noting that “the offence is
punishable under Sections 97
and 284 of the Penal Code of
Benue State 2004.”
However, no plea was taken
because the court lacked the
jurisdiction to hear the case,
while the judge, Mr. Kwen,
adjourned the case to September
24.
Sodomised, too
Speaking to newsmen after the
court sitting, a caregiver and
Founder of Restorer of PathCare
Foundation, Evangelist Enewa
Soo, stated that sometime in
June, the case was reported to
her through the International
Federation of Women Lawyers
and she has since been making
sure that the victim’s health was
restored.
Soo said: “At the time they
brought the girl, she was very
sick and when we began to make
our findings, we discovered that
she was actually raped and the
doctors confirmed that she was
allegedly sexually abused
through the virgina and the anus
by one Victor Ogbuja, her
guardian’s son.
“Since then we have been
trying to see how we can restore
her health. We took her to a
teaching hospital where series of
tests were carried out and she
has also been booked for
Vesicovaginal Fistula, VVF,
operation in Jos, Plateau State,
from September 16 to 17.”
Soo lamented that the girl had
been emotionally and mentally
depressed as a result of her
situation and called on parents
After 10 days in tramadol-induced
coma, kidnapper dies
By Dayo Johnson
AKURE—AFTER 10 days
of unconsciousness,
following complications
from tramadol, an
unidentified kidnap suspect
in Ondo State, Monday,
gave up the ghost.
He died after 30 drips
were infused into him at
Owo General Hospital,
where doctors battled to
revive him.
Unfortunately, police
detectives that have been
waiting for him to come back
to life could not get any
information from him,
including his identity.
The suspect was arrested
on August 5, after he fell
following the intake of tramadol
during a botched kidnap attempt
of a pharmacist in Owo area of
the state.
His two accomplices fled the
scene on a motorcycle, which was
snatched from one Daodu Wale,
who came to the chemist to buy
drugs.
Recall that the pharmacist
escaped through the back door
of the chemist when the three
kidnappers arrived Chinery
Pharmacy with the intention of
kidnapping him.
Sensing trouble, the three
kidnappers retreated after
customers in the shop noticed the
guns that was in their hands and
raised alarm.
•Victim down with VVF
•… as FUT Minna dismisses
lecturer over sex-for-mark scandal
to beware of who they leave
their children with.
The son started in
2013, says victim
Narrating her ordeal, the
victim, a JSS 1 student of
F e d e r a l
Government
College, Gboko,
said her
guardian’s son
first raped her
in 2013 and
warned her
never to
disclose it to
anyone.
Her story:
“It
Andrew Ogbuja
all started in 2013 when I came
to live with my mother’s sister
in Ugbokolo because there
was no school in my village.
“When I was eight years old, the
son started sleeping with me and
when his sister caught him, she
reported him to their father and
the father scolded him.
“From there, the father also
started sleeping with me and I
told my mother. My mother
told my elder sister, who
later took me to Makurdi
for check up. Last year
September, when I went
to school and started
feeling sick, I was taken
to Federal Medical
Centre, Makurdi, where
I spent two months and
five days before I was
discharged.
“In the hospital,
they discovered
that what my
aunty’ son
and his
father did
to me
w a s
responsible
for my
condition.
M y
mother
went to
confront
my aunty
and the
husband,
but they
did not
take the
matter
serious,
that is
why we
brought
the case
here. I
want my
health
back.”
FUT Minna
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