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19M fraud landed a well-known Pastor in EFCC Custody.
19M fraud landed a well-known Pastor in EFCC Custody.
19M fraud landed a well-known pastor, Temidayo Eseyin, and a lawyer and former member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Ilorin Branch, have been charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s Ilorin Zonal Command.
NewsReport Nigeria reports that Temidayo Eseyin, who was also an associate pastor of the Living Faith Church (aka Winners’ Chapel), was arraigned for allegedly defrauding Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, of the sum of N19.3 million.
Landmark University
Landmark University is owned by Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church.
The defendant allegedly abused his position as Attorney for Landmark University, to cheat and defraud his client (the university).
NewsReport gathered that, according to the EFCC, he committed the offense between 2014 and 2022 when he was managing a property known as the “Old Midland Building” belonging to Landmark University.
The university is situated along Emir/Obbo Road, Ilorin, for which Mr. Eseyin collected rent for 8 years but could not account.
Over 19M fraud landed a well-known Pastor in EFCC Custody.
This online information learned that the Commission noted that Eseyin had also allegedly attempted to sell the property without authorization from the university.
Based on these, the EFCC arraigned him before Justice Funsho Lawal of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on a four-count charge bordering on dishonestly misappropriating the university’s funds.
“That you, Temidayo Eseyin, sometime in the year 2021, in Ilorin, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly misappropriated the sum of Six Million, Sixty Four Thousand Naira Only (N6, 064,000) representing payment of rent on a property known as the Old Midland Building belonging to Landmark University and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 of the Penal Code Law and Punishable under Section 309 of the same Law,” count 3 of the charge reads, but the defendant pleaded not guilty.
Counsel to the EFCC, Rashidat Alao, then urged the court to fix a date for trial and remand the defendant pending trial.
Eseyin’s lawyer, Femi Makinde, however, moved an application for the bail of the defendant, which Justice Lawal granted in the sum of N10 million.
He was also asked to produce 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, and the case was adjourned until the new dates for the next sitting were communicated to the parties.
