Her name is Mrs. Adenike Owolope and she's 44 years old. prior to her arrest she worked with the Sales and Finance Department of Remdocs Nigeria Limited, at
35 Saidat Kellam Street, Abaranje, Ikotun, Lagos. She has been arrested and
charged on a one count charge of stealing before the presiding magistrate, Mrs M. B. Folami at the Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, southwest
Nigeria, for allegedly squandering her employer’s money on lotto game popularly known as 'Baba Ijebu'.
According to P.M.NEWS the Ogun State-born Owolope worked in the sales and
finance department of a cosmetics company, where she had access
to the company’s money and allegedly stole N1, 960, 000 to play lotto.
It
was alleged that the woman stole the money in piecemeal to play the
lotto game with the hope that she would win a lot of money and then
return her employer’s money.
However, things did not work out as
she allegedly planned because she did not win any prize before the
company discovered the missing money and arrested her.
When she was arraigned, she pleaded not guilty.
Owolope was granted bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.
She
was, however, remanded in Kirikiri Prison, Lagos pending when she will
meet her bail conditions. The matter was adjourned till 3 July, 2013.
When P.M.NEWS
contacted the suspect, she denied that she stole and used the money to
play lottery as alleged by her employer. She told our reporter that the
whole thing was planned to implicate her.
“The truth will surely come out,” she said, reiterating that she was accused wrongly.
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