A travel agent, Musa Adamu has been arraigned by the police in a Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly defrauding two ladies of N1.2 million.
The accused is standing trial on a two-count-charge of criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The prosecutor, Osa Oyeyemi, said the matter was reported at the Wuse Police Station on November23 by two sisters, Aisha Bukar and Halima Bukar, both residents of Gwarimpa Abuja.
Oyeyemi said that sometime in July the accused collected N1.2 million from the complainants with the assurance to secure two visas to Saudi Arabia, for them.
The prosecutor said the money was paid into an Access Bank account number 3054178600 belonging to the accused.
“The complainants waited but could not get the visas from the defendant as he promised, and the defendant failed to refund the money and avoided the complainants.
“The sisters even traced the defendant’s home address and reported the matter to his wife but all was in vain’’, the Prosecutor explained.
Oyeyemi noted that the offences contravened Sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code respectively.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty and the Senior Magistrate, Shuaibu Usman, granted him bail in the sum of N500,000 with a surety in like sum.
Usman said the surety should reside within the court’s jurisdiction and adjourned the case till Jan. 12, for hearing