How teacher obtained N100,000 as Lagos
First Lady
on July 25, 2013 at 8:27 pm in News
BY ONOZURE DANIA & JEOMA NATHANIEL
Lagos — A 53- year-old teacher on Grade
Level 10, Asogbon Victoria Abosede, was
Thursday, arraigned before Lagos Chief
Magistrate’s Court One, sitting in Ikeja, for
allegedly impersonating the first lady of
Lagos State, Dame Abimbola Fashola.
The defendant was said to have sent text
messages between June and July to the
Chairman of Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council
Development Area of Lagos by falsely
presenting herself as first lady of Lagos
State and obtained N100,000 from the
chairman.
Asogbon Victoria Abosede
Asogbon Victoria Abosede
The defendant who is facing a 10-count
charge of impersonation and fraud,
preferred against her by the Anttorney
General of Lagos State, Ade Ipaye, was
docked before Chief Magistrate Eniola
Fabamwo.
The prosecutor, Attorney General of Lagos
State, Ade Ipaye, told the court that the
accused committed the alleged crime
between the months of June and July 2013,
by also sending text messages to one Mrs
Gbolahan Khadijat Daudu, who is the
Chairman, Lagos State Universal Basic
Education Board, Maryland in Ikeja area of
Lagos.
The Attorney General, who was represented
by Sumonu Babatunde, said she also
represented herself as sister to Mrs Sherifat
Aregbesola.
He said the defendant between June and
July 2013, at Local Government Education
Authority, in Alimosho Local Government
also sent a text message to one Isaac
Omoregie, Education Secretary and falsely
represented herself as Dame Fashola.
Babatunde also alleged that the suspect
with intent to defraud presented herself to
be Dame Fashola, to obtain redeployment
from Local Government Education Authority,
Alimosho, to the Lagos State Basic Education
Board.
He also claimed that between the same time,
the accused sent a text message to one
Isaac Omoregie, Education Sectarary
Alimosho, Lagos State by falsely presenting
herself as being sent by the first lady to
obtain three Blackberry phones and
N105,000, from the chairman.
The prosecutor said in June 2013, the
defendant falsely represented herself as
sister to Mrs Sherifat Aregbeshola, the first
lady of Osun State, and gave a false
information to one Mrs Gbolahan Khadijat
Daudu that Mrs Sherifat Aregbeshola was
involved in a road accident and could not
attend the wedding of Daudu’s son and that
thieves carted the gifts meant for her away
as a result of the accident.
According to the prosecutor, the offence
committed is contrary to sections 378 (1),
(b), 312 (2) and punishable under sections
312 (3), 96 (a), criminal law of Lagos State
of Nigeria 2011.
Counsel to the defendant, Samuel Gbolahan,
pleaded with the court to grant her bail in
liberal terms, since the crime is a bailable
offence.
However, when the 10-count charge was
read to the defendant, she pleaded not
guilty to the charges.
After listening to both counsel, Magistrate
Fabamwo granted the defendant bail in the
sum of N1 million with two responsible
sureties in like sum, stating that the sureties
should deposit N250,000 with the registrar.
She adjourned the case till September 2,
2013 for mention.