N100m Fraud: Court Summons NIRSAL Board Member For Trial
By Felix Kuyinu
The Federal High Court in Lagos has summoned a member of the Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, NIRSAL, one Daphine Dafinone, to appear in court over allegations of fraud.
The order was issued by Justice Ibrahim Kala sequel to Dafinone’s alleged act of the fraud amounting to N100,000,000.
Prior to the judge’s summoning, the police has charged the accused and her company, CEDDI Corporation Limited in a suit charge number FHC/C/661C/24 following a petition from a property developer, Lukmon Adeleke.
Adeleke had lodged a complain against the defendant alongside other of staging the fraudulent act between April and December 2019.
The agitator mentioned that his firm, Lukmon Communications Limited was negotiating a business with CEDDI Corporation Limited to purchase a property located at Broad Street in Lagos Island.
He alleged that the suspect, despite receiving the alleged sum, sold the property to another buyer identified as Ganiyat Ulom.
Adeleke further said that he notified Dafinone on the sale of the property to another buyer but was left without a reply.
The accused later claimed that she was in the London receiving medical treatment, thus, leading to her not replying the notice by the claimant.
The court scheduled the suspect’s trial to come up on at the court on May 5.
