A staff of Giant Feeds and Agricultural Services, Oni Sola, has been ordered to be remanded in prison for allegedly stealing the sum of N44 million from his company.
Sola, aged 42, was dragged before an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court by the police recently for offences ranging from conspiracy, fraud, to stealing.
The defendant was accused of conspiring with others now at large to collect the sum of N44 million, which is money for the feeds that the company supplied, and converted it to his own.
It was gathered that the accused person spent the money and fled the company. Sola was not able to produce the money after he was apprehended, hence, his arraignment.
When he was dragged before Chief Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara, Sola pleaded not guilty to the four count charge preferred against him.
The charge read, “That you Oni Sola and others now at large, between the month of April 2023 and May 2024, at Osogbo, Osun State in the Osogbo Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit: Obtaining Money by False Pretence, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 422 of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.Il Laws of Osun State, 2002.
“You, Oni Sola, and others now at large, on the same date, lime, place and in the aforementioned Magisterial District, did by false pretence and with intent to defraud, unlawfully obtain the sum of forty four million naira (N44,000,000:00k) from the customers of Giant Feeds and Agricultural Services, being monies for the sale of feeds supplied, under the pretence of remitting same into the company’s account belonging to one Egbhobamien Tina, a pretence you know to be false and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 419 of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.II Laws of Osun State, 2002.
“That you did conspire among yourselves to commit a felony to wit: Stealing, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 516 of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.Il Laws of Osun State, 2002.
“You did convert to your own use, the sum of forty four million naira (N44, 000,000:00k), property of one Egbhobamien Tina and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 390(9) of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.II Laws of Osun State, 2002.”
Attempts by the defence counsel, Kehinde Adepoju to move the court in granting the accused bail failed as a Deputy Superintendent of Police, O. Mustapha, who is prosecuting the matter, objected to the bail application.
Chief Magistrate Ayilara ordered that the defendant be remanded in Ilesa Correctional Centre and adjourned the matter till February 18 for mention.
He asked the defence counsel to approach the court with a formal application for bail.
