A magistrate’s court sitting in the Iwo Road area of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday sentenced a 47-year-old woman, Funmi Salako, to two years’ imprisonment for defrauding a deaf and dumb of N1m.
The court, which was presided over by a magistrate, Taiwo Oladiran, was told that the defendant, who is a civil servant with the Oyo State Ministry of Land, Housing and Surveying, collected the money from her victim, one Musibau Ilori, under the pretext of helping him to purchase a piece of land for farming along the Ibadan-Oyo Expressway. Read more