A Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, has convicted one Sunday Adeniyi Olusegun, of Safe Trip Transport Company for issuing dud cheques in a bid to
According to the judgement delivered by Justice A. O. Akinpelu, the convict was found guilty of the said offence and was consequently sentenced to a suspended two years imprisonment pursuant to Section 451 of the Kwara State Administration of Criminal Justice Law with some conditions.
“PW4, who went on investigation to the bank and was told that the cheques were dud cheques was not confronted with the fact that the bank was ordered not to cashback the cheques as claimed. Speaking on the judgement, the counsel to Alhaja Kudirat Ibiyeye, who is also the Head of chambers, Yusuf Ali and Co., Mr. Yakub Dauda, said that the matter was in two folds.
“At the end of the day, the matter was taken to court where the said matter was supposed to commence with summary judgement, but the learned trial judge, Justice S.T. Umar of the High Court sitting in Ilorin was of the opinion that the counter affidavit to our affidavit in support of summary judgment disclosed an iota of defence as a result of which the matter was transferred to what we call general cause list.
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