Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

EFCC Presents First Witness Against Defendant in Alleged N19m Land Fraud in Lagos

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Directorate 1, on Monday, January 12, 2026, presented its first prosecution witness, PWI, Abiodun Gafar Ademolade, a businessman, in the trial of one Murtala Adebayo over an alleged N19 million land fraud before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja. Adebayo is facing trial on a three-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, following his re-arraignment, The defendant had earlier pleaded “not guilty” when he was first arraigned before Justice Mojisola Dada of the same court. Inv…