An Ondo-based cleric, Pastor Paul Oyewole, has been arraigned before a chief magistrate’s court in Ondo town for faking his own death to avoid paying a N3 million loan which he secured from a member of his church.
Oyewole falsely published and posted his obituary on a social media platform after he sent a fake bank alert to his creditor, Boyede Emmanuel.
He was arraigned on Wednesday, February 1, for fraudulently obtaining the money under the pretence to pay back the money within seven days, The Nation reports.
Also, Oyewole falsely published and posted his obituary on WhatsApp after he had sent a fake alert to an account, despite knowing that he did not have such an amount in his bank account.
Oyewole, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him.
The police prosecutor, Sergeant Akao Moremi, said that he would call on four witnesses to testify in the case, while the defendant’s lawyer, Queen Arokoyo, applied for bail on liberal terms.
Meanwhile, the presiding magistrate, Mosunmola Ikujuni, granted the defendant bail to the sum of N1 million with two credible sureties each in like sum.
She adjourned the case till February 13, 2023, for hearing.
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