The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 8, 2025 arraigned one Ntai Bagshaw and his company, Terraworks Limited before Justice I. O. Ijelu of the Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, Lagos for fraud.
They are being prosecuted on a two-count charge, bordering on obtaining money under false pretence and stealing.
Count one reads: “That you Ntai Bagshow and Terraworks Limited sometime in December 2021 at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division with intent to defraud obtained from Muyiwa Makinde the sum of N70,000,000.00 (Seventy Million Naira) under the false pretense that the money is for the payment of a detached Duplex in Renat Axis, located at Ogudu GRA, Lagos State which pretence you knew to be false”.
Count two reads: “That you Ntai Bagshow and Terraworks Limited sometime in December 2021 at Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court dishonestly converted to your own use the sum of N70,000,000.00 (Seventy Million Naira) being payment for Detached Duplex located at Ogudu GRA, Lagos State.”
He pleaded “not guilty” to the charges when they were read to him, following which prosecution counsel, F. T. Giwa asked the court for a trial date and prayed that the defendant be remanded in a correctional centre.
Justice Ijelu adjourned the matter untill May 13, 2025, for the hearing of the bail application and commencement of trial.
He ordered that the defendant be remanded in a correctional facility, EFCC reported in a post on its Facebook page.
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