Egbegbe (left) and a co-accused being escorted to a transit cell during an earlier court appearance
Ladipo Sanusi
Nollywood movie marketer, Olajide Oluwaseun Kareem, aka Seun Egbegbe, and his accomplice, Oyekan Ayomide, currently facing fraud charges at a Federal High Court, Lagos, will spend more days in prison custody, as their hope of securing bail was dashed on Wednesday.
The two are being prosecuted by the police for allegedly swindling some Bureau De Change (BDC) operators of various sums in both local and foreign currencies.
When the trial of the pair resumed on Wednesday, Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo extended their remand order till Tuesday, when their bail application will be entertained.
Egbegbe and his alleged accomplice were first arraigned, last Friday, by the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) of Lagos State Police Command on a 36-count charge, bordering on conspiracy and fraud.
During Wednesday’s hearing, the accused persons’ lawyer, Miss. A. O. Gbadamoshi, informed the court that she started the process of filling the bail applications, last Friday, and had served the completed applications on the police, on Tuesday.
She also said she called the police prosecutor, Mr. Innocent Anyigor, to inform him of the development.
In response, Anyigor informed the court that he was unable to file a counter motion to the applications, because he received them on Wednesday morning.
He said he would need time to study the content of the applications before filing his counter motion.
He, therefore, prayed the court for a short adjournment to enable him reply to the accused persons’ bail applications.
Consequently, the presiding judge ordered that the accused persons should be returned to prison custody, while he adjourned the hearing of their bail applications.
In the charge, marked FHC/L/40C/2017, filed before the court, police alleged that the accused persons had between 2016 and February 2, 2017, defrauded BDC operators at various places in Lagos State of over N40 million; $29, 800,00 and £4, 815.
The offences, according to the charge, are contrary to sections 8 and 1(1)(a)(B)(3) of Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2006, and punishable under section 1(1) of the same Act.
Some of the BDC operators allegedly defrauded by the pair, includes:Issa Adamu, Mohammed Sanni, Jubril Ado, Hassan Amodu, Bala Mohammed, Sanni Hassan, Abdullahi Mumuni, Suraju Garuba, Mutairu Shuaibu, Sanusi Muhammad, Kabiru Jubril.
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This guy must be kept away for his own good until he seeks that much needed help otherwise, he would end up fallen into the hands of street tough guys who would met out what is known as a jungle justice, the Nigerian style, which might cost him his life.