Tobi Ijalana
Have you ever mistakenly transferred money to someone? That is, transferring it to him or her when you intended to send it to another person?
Well, if you did so and the receiver subsequently cooperated with you, count yourself lucky.
Such as mistake has led to a police matter in Ile-Ife Osun State.
A woman mistakengly transferred N100,000 to her former mechanic but he allegedly refused to refund it.
Now, an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered the remand of the 43-year-old mechanic, Kunle Ogunbusade, in police custody over alleged theft.
Ogunbusade, whose address was not provided, had pleaded guilty to stealing when the charge was read to him.
Magistrate Muhibah Olatunji, who did not grant the bail application of the defendant, ordered that he should be remanded at Aganhun police station until the next adjourned date.
Olatunji, thereafter, adjourned the case till June 23, for presentation of fact and sentencing.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp. Abdullahi Emmanuel, had told the court that the defendant committed the offence on June 11 at 7:00 pm., at the Ilesa garage area, Ile-Ife.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Emmanuel said that the complainant, Mrs Kehinde Olowosoke, reported to the police that she mistakenly transferred the N100,000 into the Access Bank account of the defendant, the mechanic.
The prosecutor said that Olowosoke was trying to transfer the amount to her son but inadvertently sent it to the mechanic.
He said that the complainant immediately called the defendant when she realised her mistake.
Emmanuel further said that instead of returning the money to the owner, Ogunbusade converted it to his own use, while all entreaties to him to refund the money had proved futile.
According to him, the offence contravenes Section 390(9) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Osun, 2002.
The Defence Counsel, Mr Monday Gilbert, pleaded for bail for his client in the most liberal terms, pledging that his client would not jump bail, but would provide reliable sureties.
Meanwhile, enjoy this video and subscribe for more on Akeem Lasisi the Poet on YouTube.
