A 27-year-old woman, Busayo Alagbe, has been arraigned before the Yaba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for sponsporing her lover with stolen funds.
Busayo was charged with three counts bordering on the conversion of employer funds, stealing and forgery.
She was arrested and charged with forgery of bank documents and robbing her employer, Bridgeway Ventures, of N4.5 million.
The crimes, according to the prosecutor, Godwin Oriabure, occurred between July and November 2022, in the Gbagada area of the state.
Busayo confessed during interrogation that she had used the money to sponsor her lover’s traveling expenses to the United Kingdom.
Oriabure told the court that the offence was contrary to and punishable under Section 287(b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
An excerpt of the charges read, “That you, Busayo Alagbe, between July and November 2022, at no 17 Olujobi Street, Gbagada Estate, Lagos, in the Yaba Magisterial District, did fraudulently convert the sum of Four-Million Five Hundred and Thirty One Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Naira, property of Olayinka Blackshear and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 287(b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Magistrate A.O Salawu granted the defendant bail in the sum of N1m with two responsible sureties and adjourned the matter till January 19, 2023.
