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Witness Tells Court How Ilorin-based Lawyer Swindles Land Owners

The trial of Ilorin-based legal practitioner, Akeem Jimoh who is accused of serially defrauding people of their lands commenced on Monday, July 15, 2019 before Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin with the prosecution calling two witnesses that included Babatunde Shittu, a key prosecution witness and EFCC operative. Shittu told the court that the EFCC received a petition from one Mr Chukwudi sometime in March 2019, alleging that the defendant defrauded him of about NI.600million (One Hundred and Six Million Naira) landed property. According to him, Jimoh rece…

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