A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ado Ekiti, on Friday, remanded a syndicate alleged of specialising in fraudulent sales of property without owners consent in Ekiti State after being apprehended by the police and arraigned before the court.
The leader of the syndicate identified as Pastor Akintoye Joseph was arraigned before the court alongside another man identified as Ogundipe Sunday and others at large on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, false pretence and conduct likely to breach public peace.
According to the police, they were alleged to have conspired to sell a “building at No 1, Ijigbo Street, Mugbagba area, Ado Ekiti, property of late Idris Omole (late chief Imam of Ijigbo mosque), at the rate of N7million,” without the consent of the late Omole’s family.
When they were arraigned before Chief Magistrate R. A. Adegboye, they pleaded not guilty to the offences but were ordered to be remanded by the court until they are able to perfect their bail conditions.
They were granted bail in the sum of N250,000 with two sureties in like sum, one of which must be a level 14 civil servant, while one of them must reside within Ado Ekiti metropolis.