Police arraign 120-year-old chief for stealing

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Femi Makinde, Osogbo

The Osun State Police Command has arraigned a 120-year-old man, Chief Busari Oyewumi, for allegedly defrauding one Wasiu Adebisi of N400,000.

The suspect was arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Osogbo headed by Mrs. Fatima Sodamade on Monday on three counts of stealing, obtaining by false pretences and conspiracy.

The police prosecutor, Mr. Taiwo Adegoke, told the court that the suspect and others at large conspired together and fraudulently obtained the sum of N400,000 from Adebisi on the pretext of selling a plot of land to him.

The charges read in part, “That you, Chief Busari Oyewumi, and others now at large, sometime in 2015 at the back of the Powerline area, Osogbo, in the Osogbo Magisterial District, did fraudulently obtain the sum of N400,000 from one Alhaji Ganiyu Adebisi on behalf of his son, Adebisi Wasiu, on the pretext of selling a…



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