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The heart of man is truly wicked! 46yrs old Dayo Akala
has been arrested by Police and charged before the Isolo
magistrate court for allegedly defrauding his late friend,
Obiora Samuel in Lagos.
The incident happened at 96 Adeshina street, Ijeshatedo,
Lagos where both reside and met.
According to police findings, Mr Akala allegedly deceived
and obtained four vehicles -
two Toyota Camry, Toyota Sequire and Sienna bus -
from his friend, late Obiora Samuel with the false
pretence of assisting him to sell them. The landing cost of
the items is estimated at N3million.
Obiora obliged him as a way of assisting him and handed
the vehicles to him without the original papers following an
arrangement that if he gets a buyer, he would release the
paper to him for sale.
Unfortunately, few weeks after the transaction, Obiora
suddenly died. After his demise, Akala cashed in on his
death and forged the vehicle documents, sold them and
escaped.
Unknown to him, the late Obiora duly informed his wife
of the kind assistance he rendered to Mr. Akala before he
died and gave her the original documents of those vehicles.
After the burial , the wife went to Mr. Akala to know
whether he had sold any of the vehicles, he denied any
transaction with her late husband who was his friend.
The matter was reported at Ijeshatedo police division and
Akala was arrested and interrogated him.
During the interrogation, he opened up and revealed that
he had sold the vehicles with forged documents and offered
to refund the money which he still failed to fulfill.
Consequently, he was charged to court with three count
charge of obtaining under false pretence, forgery
and criminal conversion under the Criminal Code.
In court he pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Inspector Abass Abayomi urged the court
to take note of the nature of the matter while granting him
bail as he, Mr. Akala, had once written an undertaken but
failed to comply.
Thus, the presiding Magistrate, Mrs O. A. Adedayo
granted him bail in the sum of N1m with two sureties in
like sum.
The court also ordered that 10 percent bond must be paid
into Court registrar’s account.
Mr. Akala is now in prison and will remain there until he
is able to meet his bail conditions. The matter was
adjourned till December 16, 2015, for trial.
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