Here Is Why Stephanie Coker's Husband Was Arraigned In A Lagos Court Today

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday charged a sibling recently originator of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) and property engineer, David Olumide Aderinokun and a staff of the New Town Development Authority (NTDA), Balogun Adeniyi Abdul-Wakil under the watchful eye of an Igbosere Magistrate Court over affirmed scheme, falsification, taking and property extortion on packages of land in Lekki Peninsula evaluated at 2678.068 square meters.

Aderinokun, who is the spouse of media identity, Stephanie Coker, was summoned independently on an eight-tally charge verging on the offense before Chief Magistrate Olufolake Oshin, and nearby Abdul-Wakil on another eight-check charge under the watchful eye of a similar court.

Aderinokun, exchanging under the name and style of Davade Properties, was asserted to have contrived with others now everywhere at some point in February 2016 to confer lawful offense to mind taking, fraud and getting cash under misrepresentation.

As per the charge, Aderinokun criminally "changed over a real estate parcel measuring around 1764.44 square meters arrange at Plot 7B, Block CBD.1, Lekki Peninsula Scheme 1, Eti Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State, property of Ocean Trust Limited for your own utilization and to the utilization of others, and consequently carried out an offense in spite of Section 287 of the Criminal Law Cap C17, Vol. 3, Laws of Lagos State, 2015."

He was asserted to have produced a Deed of Assignment with document number DLS/GC/110323 with the aim of utilizing same to cheat clueless individuals from people in general.

Additionally, Aderinokun was claimed to have deceitfully acquired N18 million from one Mrs Jumoke Fola-Alade on the falsification that he was the proprietor of the said property as opposed to and culpable under Section 314 of the Criminal Law Cap C17, Vol.3, Laws of Lagos State.

In the other charge, Aderinokun and Abdul-Wakil were affirmed to have plotted with others now everywhere to deceitfully change over a real estate parcel measuring around 913.628 square meters arranged at Plot 44, Block 77, Lekki Peninsula Scheme 1 in Eti Osa for their utilization.

The property being referred to, which was enlisted as Number 96 at page 96 in Volume 1993p, had a place with Mr Ben Adebisi Oyekunle and Mrs Bukola Taiwo Oyekunle.

In one of the checks, Aderinokun and Abdul-Wakil and others now everywhere were said to have "Approximately the third of March, 2012 at Lekki Area of Lagos State in the Lagos Magisterial District, had a fake archive (Deed of Assignment enrolled as No 91 at page 91 in Volume 2399) knowing completely well that the report was false and exhibited same at the Lagos State Land Registry, Alausa, Ikeja for enlistment and in this manner carried out an offense as opposed to Section 320 of the Criminal Law Cap C17, Vol.3, Laws of Lagos State, 2015."

In particular, Abdul-Wakil was said to have utilized authority data available to him to falsely change over the said arrive for his own utilization in opposition to the law.

After the charges were perused to them, the respondents argued not liable, while their legal advisors – Stanley Imhanruor and Sunny Ogoh encouraged the court to allow them abandon liberal terms.

The legal counselors pivoted the safeguard application in light of the fact that the litigants had no criminal records and were showing up in court out of the blue, including that the offenses for which they were charged were bailable.

On his part, the prosecutor from the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Dr Babajide Martins connected that the respondents be remanded in authority, and also a date for trial.

He said the application for remand was required by the way that the respondents were purportedly engaged with an all around coordinated land extortion combined with the way that others associated with the wrongdoing were still everywhere, and that discharging them on safeguard may imperil the case.

In her decision, Magistrate Oshin conceded Aderinokun and Abdul-Wakil to safeguard in the total of N10 million and two capable sureties in like aggregate. One of the sureties must be a government worker not underneath grade level 16 in the State Public Service and should get endorsement of the Head of Service to remain as surety.

Oshin likewise decided that the other surety must be a staff not beneath administrative level in a respectable association and if independently employed must show proof of organization enrollment with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) with a base adjust of N1 million and expense freedom.

"The litigants are to store their legitimate universal travel papers to the court, while the official and private locations of the sureties are to be confirmed by the prosecutor," Magistrate Oshin held.

The litigants were additionally requested to be remanded in Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison pending the flawlessness of their safeguard conditions.

The issue was hence dismissed to February 2, 2018 for trial.

Photographs of him in court beneath