Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned an Ilorin-based associate pastor with the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel, Temidayo Eseyin, Esq., for allegedly defrauding Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, to the tune of N19.3 million.
In a statement by the Head Media and Publicity of the anti-graft agency, Wilson Uwujaren, Mr. Eseyin, a lawyer and former member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA) Ilorin branch, was docked on a four-count charge bordering on dishonest misappropriation of funds belonging to the University before Justice Funsho Lawal of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin.
In a petition to the EFCC, Mr. Eseyin, whilst being a counsel/Attorney to Landmark University, Omu-Aran had access to her properties, title documents, and funds.
Specifically in one of his alleged atrocities, the defendant, between 2014 – 2022 managed a property known as “Old Midland Building” belonging to Landmark University, situated along Emir’s/Obbo Road, Ilorin, which rents Mr Eseyin collected for eight years and could not produce when asked.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge, and following his plea, counsel to the EFCC, Rashidat Alao, urged the court to fix a date for trial, while praying the court to remand the defendant in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Centre pending trial.
https://www.conference.nbaslp.org/page.Page8.html However, Eseyin’s lawyer, Femi Makinde, moved an application for the bail of the defendant. He prayed the court to admit his client to bail pending trial. Justice Lawal, while ruling on the application admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N10 million with two sureties in the sum of N5 million each. The judge ordered that the sureties must have landed property within the jurisdiction of the court.
©️BY IYABO AINA of https://newsrainng.com/2023/06/23/n19-3m-fraud-winners-chapel-pastor-in-efcc-custody/
