The police in Lagos have captured a 40-year-old auto painter, Sunday Arowolo, for supposedly "taking" a Toyota Matrix of one Mrs. Anueylagu Ifeyinwa, an educator.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Ifeyinwa had in July 2014 given the auto to Arowolo, who lives in Omo-Oba Estate, Ori-Okuta, Ikorodu, to help her offer it for N2.5m.
The police said one Vallentine, who is still everywhere, had gone about as a middle person in the middle of Ifeyinwa and the suspect.
The lady was said to have requested that Arowolo return the auto when he was not able get a purchaser for it on time, yet he apparently declined, saying he had effectively sold it to somebody using a credit card.
PUNCH Metro accumulated that Ifeyinwa in the long run reported the matter at the Owutu Police Station in September 2015, when her endeavors to get either the cash or the auto from Arowolo demonstrated unsuccessful.
Our journalist assembled that he paid the lady N1.5m a short time later, while the case was later exchanged to Zone 2 police central command, Onikan, in December.
The Osun State indigene, in his announcement to the police, said he had utilized the auto as a part of trade of a plot of area in the Ibeju-Lekki zone of the state. He added that he should give the lady N2.3m for the auto, out of which he had officially paid N1.5m.
He said, "It was Valentine, who acquainted me with Mrs. Ifeyinwa as an auto merchant. She gave me her Toyota Matrix, esteemed at N2.5m, to help her offer it. I put the vehicle available to be purchased, yet I didn't get a purchaser. In January 2015, I called the lady that she ought to give me a chance to utilize the auto in return for a bundle of area, however she won't.
"Somebody later valued it for N1.9m however the individual did not return. I then utilized the auto to gather a plot of area at Ibeju-Lekki. I had paid her N1.5m with a guarantee to pay her a parity of N800,000 in January, 2016."
Arowolo was charged under the watchful eye of an Igbosere Magistrates' Court by a police prosecutor, Inspector Stephen Moloh, on three numbers of taking.
The charges read to a limited extent, "That you, Sunday Arowolo, others still everywhere, on July 7, 2014, at around 10am, on Ayo Ajileye Street, Ori-Okuta, Ikorodu, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did plot among yourselves to carry out lawful offense to mind: taking, along these lines perpetrating an offense culpable under Section 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.
"That you, and others now everywhere on the same date, time and put in the previously stated authoritative locale, did take one Toyota Matrix esteemed at N2.5m, property of Mrs. Anueyiagu Ifeyinwa, in this way carrying out an offense in spite of and culpable under Section 285 (10) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011."
The litigant argued not blameworthy and was allowed safeguard by the justice, Mr. Martins Owumi, in the whole of N300,000 with two sureties in like entirety.
The case was suspended till January 19, 2016.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Ifeyinwa had in July 2014 given the auto to Arowolo, who lives in Omo-Oba Estate, Ori-Okuta, Ikorodu, to help her offer it for N2.5m.
The police said one Vallentine, who is still everywhere, had gone about as a middle person in the middle of Ifeyinwa and the suspect.
The lady was said to have requested that Arowolo return the auto when he was not able get a purchaser for it on time, yet he apparently declined, saying he had effectively sold it to somebody using a credit card.
PUNCH Metro accumulated that Ifeyinwa in the long run reported the matter at the Owutu Police Station in September 2015, when her endeavors to get either the cash or the auto from Arowolo demonstrated unsuccessful.
Our journalist assembled that he paid the lady N1.5m a short time later, while the case was later exchanged to Zone 2 police central command, Onikan, in December.
The Osun State indigene, in his announcement to the police, said he had utilized the auto as a part of trade of a plot of area in the Ibeju-Lekki zone of the state. He added that he should give the lady N2.3m for the auto, out of which he had officially paid N1.5m.
He said, "It was Valentine, who acquainted me with Mrs. Ifeyinwa as an auto merchant. She gave me her Toyota Matrix, esteemed at N2.5m, to help her offer it. I put the vehicle available to be purchased, yet I didn't get a purchaser. In January 2015, I called the lady that she ought to give me a chance to utilize the auto in return for a bundle of area, however she won't.
"Somebody later valued it for N1.9m however the individual did not return. I then utilized the auto to gather a plot of area at Ibeju-Lekki. I had paid her N1.5m with a guarantee to pay her a parity of N800,000 in January, 2016."
Arowolo was charged under the watchful eye of an Igbosere Magistrates' Court by a police prosecutor, Inspector Stephen Moloh, on three numbers of taking.
The charges read to a limited extent, "That you, Sunday Arowolo, others still everywhere, on July 7, 2014, at around 10am, on Ayo Ajileye Street, Ori-Okuta, Ikorodu, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did plot among yourselves to carry out lawful offense to mind: taking, along these lines perpetrating an offense culpable under Section 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.
"That you, and others now everywhere on the same date, time and put in the previously stated authoritative locale, did take one Toyota Matrix esteemed at N2.5m, property of Mrs. Anueyiagu Ifeyinwa, in this way carrying out an offense in spite of and culpable under Section 285 (10) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011."
The litigant argued not blameworthy and was allowed safeguard by the justice, Mr. Martins Owumi, in the whole of N300,000 with two sureties in like entirety.
The case was suspended till January 19, 2016.
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