Abusinessman, Taiyelolu Ibrahim Akeem, has been convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment, by a Federal High Court, Lagos, over twenty one million naira fraud.
Taiyelolu was given the jailed terms by Justice Nicholas Oweibo, after the prosecution review the facts of the two counts charges of obtaining by false pretence and fraud made against him.
The convict had on September 3, pleaded guilty to the two counts charge, when he was first arraigned before the court.
In reviewing the facts of the charge, the prosecutor, Daniel Apochi, of the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) Ikoyi, Lagos, fraudulently obtained the said sum through his company, Tkashy Multi Service, from one Solomon George, under the pretence of supplying him twenty containers of Charcoal.
Daniel further told the court that the convict and others now at large, committed the offence in Lagos, between the month of February and October 2019.
The defendant who was not represented by any counsel, pleaded with the court to tamper justice with mercy in sentencing him.
After listened to the submission of the prosecutor and defendant’s plea for mercy, Justice Oweibo sentenced the businessman to three years imprisonment without option of fine.
Olaoluwa Adekunle
