An Osun State High Court sitting in Ila Orangun, headquarters of Ila Local Council of Osun State has adjourned the case of stealing leveled against two officials of First Bank Plc., to November 23.
  
Justice G. Lawal adjourned the case to the date after hearing from parties involved in the matter. The two bank officials; Messrs Kehinde David Oludare and Awolola Olalekan Ayodeji were alleged to have interfered with the account of an Immigration Officer, Adeyemi Badiru.
 
The accused persons, who were attached to the Inisa Branch of the bank in Osun State were said to be the Business Manager and Account Officer of Badiru respectively, at the time the alleged crime was committed in 2015.
 
Badiru, had dragged officials of the bank before the court for allegedly falsifying his account domiciled at the bank.
 
The defendants were in 2015 arraigned on a five-count charge of stealing, keeping fraudulent books of account, falsifying books of account and fraudulent false accounting brought against them by the Osun State government.
 
The offences are said to be contrary to sections 435 (B), 438 (B) and 390 (9) of the criminal code law, Cap 3 laws of Osun State 2002. The matter, which has suffered a series of long adjournments, had earlier been handled at the Okuku division of the court by four different Judges before it was transferred to Justice Lawal of Ila-Orangun division.
 
At the resumed hearing of the case, counsel to the defendants asked for adjournment to enable them regularise their processes. Badiru had told the court that the two suspects paid the sum of N1 million into his account domiciled at the First Bank Plc., without soliciting for it, alleging the two bank officials planned to defraud him through their action.
 
He said: “The two suspects with intent to defraud me made or were privy to make false entry into my account when without authority created a loan account number 3896210013660 in the name of Badiru Adeyemi Oluwafemi, purporting to show that I took the loan on the said account.”