Justice Ibrahim Kala of the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Lagos, has fastened March 4, 2025, for the arraignment of Dr. Daphne Dafinone, a board member of the Nigerian Incentive-Based mostly Danger Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), for an alleged N100 million fraud.
Dr. Dafinone, alongside her firm, CEDDI Company Restricted, are going through costs associated to an alleged N100 million fraud, as acknowledged in a cost marked FHC/C/661C/24.
The prosecuting company, the Pressure Headquarters by means of Barrister Anthony Iyeye, a Superintendent of Police (SP) was current, whereas Dapo Akinosun (SAN) appeared for the defendants.
On the point out of the matter immediately, Akinosun advised the courtroom that his consumer, Dr. Dafinone, was in London receiving medical remedy.
He advised the courtroom that upon listening to about her absence, he suggested her that she shouldn’t be in London when she was scheduled to seem in courtroom.
The senior lawyer additional advised the courtroom that he requested a video name to verify her location and requested proof of her hospitalisation, which she supplied within the type of a letter from her physician.
Moreover, Akinosun acknowledged that Dr. Dafinone despatched him a photocopy of her passport and journey stamps to verify her abroad whereabouts.
The defence lawyer emphasised that he had beforehand given an enterprise to the courtroom that Dr. Dafinone would attend the courtroom on the subsequent adjustment for arraignment.
He assured the courtroom that she would return to Nigeria on January 28, 2025, and requested an adjournment for the arraignment.
The prosecutor didn’t object to the request.
Justice Ibrahim Kala adjourned the case till March 4, 2025, for Dr. Dafinone’s arraignment.
The fees stem from a petition filed by Prince Lukman Adeleke, a developer, towards Dr. Dafinone, her firm CEDDI Company Ltd., and different unidentified people.
The petition alleges that between April and December 2019, Dr. Dafinone and others conspired to defraud Adeleke of N100 million.
In accordance with the petition, Adeleke’s firm, Lukman Communications Restricted had been in negotiations with CEDDI Company Restricted for the sale of a property at 93 Broad Avenue, Lagos Island.
Regardless of ongoing negotiations and a fee of N100 million, Dr. Dafinone is accused of continuing with the sale of the identical property to a different celebration, Mrs. Ganiyat Ulom.
Adeleke claims that when he discovered of the sale, he instructed his solicitors to problem a memorandum of declare to CEDDI Company Restricted and Mrs. Ulom.
Nonetheless, each events allegedly failed to reply, main Adeleke to file a lawsuit within the Excessive Courtroom of Lagos State.