Man Charged With Fraud Begs Judge To Send Him To Jail

A 35-year old university graduate, Adesokan
Ifeoluwa, who allegedly took N1.4 million from
his lover with a promise to marry her, but
ditched her and used the money to marry
another woman, has pleaded with a judge to
send him to prison.
Ifeoluwa is facing a three-count charge of
felony, obtaining under false pretence and
stealing before a Lagos Magistrate's Court
sitting in Ejigbo.
He broke down in tears after he learnt that his
wife identified as Kemi, whom he used the
money to marry, had equally left him.
He also changed his earlier plea of not guilty
to guilty and asked the court to jail him when
this realisation dawned on him.
The Ekiti State-born graduate of Public
Administration from Ado- Ekiti State
University, said he preferred to be in prison
since Kemi has also left him because of his
predicament which started nine months ago.
However, he could not secure the sentence
after the prosecutor, Mr Adeleye Oluwafemi,
presented the facts and sentence.
He objected to some of the facts presented
before the court.
The court presided over by Mr P. E. Nwaka
entered not guilty plea for him following his
counsel's request and adjourned the matter.
Ifeoluwa allegedly left a middle aged woman,
Amusa Taiwo, in the lurch after she allegedly
gave him N1.4 million with the hope that he
would marry her in Lagos.
Instead of fulfilling his own part of the
agreement to marry her, Ifeoluwa used the
money to marry Kemi who eventually dumped
him.
Consequently, the jilted Taiwo who felt
betrayed and duped, demanded her money
back from him, and when it was not
forthcoming, she went to the police at Idimu
Division to report the alleged fraud.
Ifeoluwa was arrested by the police and
charged to court with fraud.
He is facing a three-count charge of felony,
obtaining under false pretence and stealing,
under the Criminal Code Laws of Lagos State
of Nigeria.
While he was facing trial at the court, another
woman complainant appeared and told the
court that she suffered a similar fate in the
hands of Ifeoluwa and the matter was still at
court three, Otta Magistrate's Court, Ogun
State, where he allegedly jumped bail.
The complaint urged the court to order his re-
arrest for him to come to Otta to face his trial.
Narrating what happened, Ifeoluwa, 35, told
our correspondent that he is from Ekiti State
and read Public Administration at Ado-Ekiti
University.
He said Taiwo was his lover before they parted
ways.
The defendant admitted before the court that
Taiwo was his lover and he wanted to marry
her but things went wrong along the line and
the marriage plans did not work out.
He said he actually collected the money from
her and did not steal it as she alleged, adding
that she was angry because the marriage
plans failed.
He also admitted that he had another woman
he wanted to marry before he met Taiwo and
said the money assisted him to settle down
with the other woman and promised to pay
her back.
Taiwo, who was still shocked about what
happened, alleged that he collected all the
money from her under false pretence to
execute a contract and raise more money for
their marriage.
She said after he collected the money, he
bolted away.
On how she met Ifeoluwa, she said she met
him at the Winners Chapel church in Ogun
State.
The court, however, granted him bail in the
sum of N700,000 with two sureties in like sum.
He was subsequently remanded in prison
custody at Kirikiri pending when he will meet
the bail conditions.
When the matter came up after several
adjournments, he changed his plea hoping he
would be sentenced, but was disappointed as
his counsel asked the court to take plea of not
guilty. The court consequently entered not
guilty plea for him and adjourned the matter
till 4 December 2013 for trial. [PMNEWS]