Court adjourns woman’s trial to March 21, 22

A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Isolo, Lagos state, has adjourned the trial of one Mrs. Cynthia Ngadi on alleged fraud, destruction of properties, to March 21 and 22, 2023.
  
Ngadi is being prosecuted by the Police for the alleged offence of obtaining money by false pretence, willful damage, conspiracy and stealing, as well as false representation to provide accommodation for different tenants at various sums.
  
She is facing a 13-count charge bordering on the alleged offences leveled against her by the Police.
  
While already under trial, another victim, who was a tenant in a property she was the caretaker, Prince Ikechukwu has applied to be joined in the suit.
  

“You Ngadi Cynthia Ngozi ‘f’ on the same date and place in the aforementioned Magisterial District with intent to defraud did obtain the sum of N350, 000 from one Ogechi Theodore ‘f’ under the pretence of providing accommodation for her, the representation you know to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 313 and punishable under section 314 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.”
  
At the trial of Ngadi on February 1, 2023 at the Magistrate court, Isolo, Lagos state, a witness, Chinwendu said she rented an apartment from the defendant and paid N300, 000 into her daughter’s account, Naomi Ogechi Ngadi and was told that the previous occupant of the apartment was to leave by March 2022 ending, but didn’t leave.
  
“Ngadi offered another apartment but there was no light there. After a while, she demanded N40, 000 but I gave her N10, 000.  It was discovered that that building owed NEPA almost N1, 000,000. We were all shocked. I stayed for a month after which the building was demolished, and she didn’t inform me of the demolition before renting out the apartment to me. I am asking for my money to rent another apartment,” she pleaded.