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SANGOTEDO -Two guests at a hotel in Oke-Odo, Sangotedo area of Lagos State, have been taken to a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court for allegedly incurring debts estimated at N453,000.
The suspects – Rasheed Olatunbosun, 37, and Adeniyi Adetoye, 27 – were said to have checked into the hotel sometime in December 2018 with a woman, who is still at large.
City Round learnt that the trio had presented themselves at the hotel as company officials who came for a seminar in the area.
Our correspondent gathered that after spending about two weeks in the facility, the woman disappeared, leaving her colleagues behind.
When asked to pay the bill for the period, the two men reportedly claimed that the fleeing suspect was their boss and that she was supposed to settle the bill.
The hotel management invited the police and they were arrested and charged with fraud.
A police prosecutor, Sergeant F. Adeleye, told the court that the offence contravened sections 315 (a) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.
The two-count charge read, “That you, Rasheed Olatunbosun, 37, and Adeniyi Adetoye, 27, and another at large, on December 2018, at 20.30hrs (8.30pm), at Jonaith Hotel, Oke-Odo, Sangotedo, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit: obtaining by false pretence, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.
“That you, Olatunbosun Rasheed, and Adeniyi Adetoye, on the same day, time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district, with intent to defraud, did obtain credit for yourselves by incurring debts of N453,000 owed to Jonaith Hotel and Suites, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 315 (a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.”
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to them.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs F.M. Dalley, granted them bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties each in the like sum.
The case was adjourned till February 19, 2019 for mention.
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The suspects – Rasheed Olatunbosun, 37, and Adeniyi Adetoye, 27 – were said to have checked into the hotel sometime in December 2018 with a woman, who is still at large.
City Round learnt that the trio had presented themselves at the hotel as company officials who came for a seminar in the area.
Our correspondent gathered that after spending about two weeks in the facility, the woman disappeared, leaving her colleagues behind.
When asked to pay the bill for the period, the two men reportedly claimed that the fleeing suspect was their boss and that she was supposed to settle the bill.
The hotel management invited the police and they were arrested and charged with fraud.
A police prosecutor, Sergeant F. Adeleye, told the court that the offence contravened sections 315 (a) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.
The two-count charge read, “That you, Rasheed Olatunbosun, 37, and Adeniyi Adetoye, 27, and another at large, on December 2018, at 20.30hrs (8.30pm), at Jonaith Hotel, Oke-Odo, Sangotedo, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit: obtaining by false pretence, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.
“That you, Olatunbosun Rasheed, and Adeniyi Adetoye, on the same day, time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district, with intent to defraud, did obtain credit for yourselves by incurring debts of N453,000 owed to Jonaith Hotel and Suites, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 315 (a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.”
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to them.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs F.M. Dalley, granted them bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties each in the like sum.
The case was adjourned till February 19, 2019 for mention.
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