Admin l Monday, March 26, 2018
IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – A Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos today adjourned proceedings to April 10, 2018 for the arraignment of Mr Semasa Kolade James son of a late ruler of Kweme Kingdom, Oba Afolabi Ogungbe James
Mr Sunday Ekong told the court that the defendant the police have preferred a criminal charge preferred against Afolabi by the Special Fraud Unit of Police, on February, 12, 2018 at a Lagos State High Court with charge No. ID/6886C/2018.The anti-graft agency accused Semasa Kolade James of stealing and forgery.
He was accused of fraudulently converting to his own use and personal benefit the sum of N500 million property of his late father’s estate between 2010 and 2017 in Lagos.
One of the count read, “That you Semasa Kolade James, in 2011 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, knowingly forged the Resolution of a company called CAJ Industrial Enterprises Limited, dated 28th November, 2011, by purporting that the said Resolution was signed by your father, as one of the directors of the company, whereas your your father died on 30th January, 2002, and you forged the said Resolution, with intent that it may in any way be used or acted upon as genuine whether in Lagos State or elsewhere to the prejudice of any person.”
The arraignment of Kolade was stalled on Monday before justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo due to the protest of defendant’s counsel that is client was not aware that the earlier date April 10 has changed. However the precaution counsel Sunday Ekong said that today was fixed for arraignment due to the difficulties the police encountered in securing the attendance of the accuse in court today.
