Presidential Candidate Arraigned For Cheating

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Women Politics Friday, April 22nd, 2011

The only woman presidential candidate in last Saturday’s presidential election, Ebiti Jegede (otherwise known as Mrs Ebiti Ndok) has been arraigned before the Magistrate Court sitting in Karu, Abuja for issuing two separate dud cheques to two different hotels to offset bills for her lodgement. The ANDP presidential candidate was arrested shortly after she finished from the presidential debate and is now standing trial under Section 322 of the Penal Code and Section 1 (1) of the Amended Cheque Act 2004 and risks three years imprisonment if convicted. Jegede was said to have lodged in a hotel from November 30, 2010 to January 24, 2011 for which she raised a cheque of N1, 287,500 to offset the bill, but it was dishonoured by her banker. The woman who wanted to become the president of Nigeria equally lodged in another hotel this year where she incurred another bill of N790,619 but wrote a cheque of N595,000 for part payment and it was returned unpaid. She has since been granted bail for N2million with a surety by a civil servant who must not be less than level thirteen in the civil service Magistrate Ahmed Shuaibu however adjourned hearing in the matter till May 12, 2011 after the prosecution S.A. Bandawa told the court that investigation into the case was yet to be completed. Specifically, Jegede is standing trial for “cheating and issuance of dud cheque contrary to section 332 of the penal code law and section I (1) of the Amended Cheque Act 2004. The police stated further on their charge sheet that: “On the day of March 2011, one Moses Ege of Onyx Hotel and Apartment Abuja came to the C.I.D department and reported that you Chief (Mrs) Ebiti Jegede checked into the hotel from 30/11/2010 to 24/1/11 and incurred bill of N1,287,500 in which you issued a post-dated cheque which upon presentation to the bank, it was returned to the clearer dishonoured. “Similarly, on the 30/1/11, one Mr David Simon of Harthrow Suite Garki Abuja wrote a petition to the Deputy Commissioner of Police CID Abuja that sometime in the month of January 2011, you Chief (Mrs) Ebiti Jegede lodged in the suite and left without paying bills and when confronted, you issued a cheque for N595, 000 which was returned dishonoured on presentation and also that the total bills incurred by you is the sum of N790,619.52. You thereby committed the above mentioned offences”.

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