By Abimbola Ogunnaike
A Dei-Dei Grade I Area Court, Abuja, presided over by Saminu Suleiman has ordered that a 30-year-old man, Victor Emeka, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly swindling a commercial sex worker.
It was gathered that the police charged Emeka of Mpape, Abuja, with criminal breach of trust and theft which he pleaded not guilty.
Magistrate Suleiman on Thursday, 6 April, ordered that the defendant be taken to Suleja Correctional Centre till May 5 when the facts of the case would be reviewed.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Chinedu Ogada, told the court that the complainant, Sandra Orogbo, of White House Hote,l Abuja, reported the case at the Zuba Police Station on March 17.
Ogada alleged that the defendant went to the hotel, and patronised the complainant with a promise to pay her N2,000 for her services on March 16.
The prosecution counsel, who said that after the complainant rendered her service to the defendant, he refused to pay her, also added the defendant further deceived the complainant to Suleja, collected her cell phone valued at N60, 000 and ran away.
Source: NAN
