The police in Lagos
have arrested a gambler, Yakubu Bashir, for alleged fraud at the Bendel Inn on
Ipodo Road, Ikeja, Lagos.
Bashir was picked up for his inability to pay
for drinks and food worth N145,000.
Punch learnt that
Bashir had gone to the hotel on Wednesday with his friends to celebrate winning
a sports bet. He was said to have won N36,000.
He reportedly ordered
assorted drinks and food for himself, his friends and other people in the bar,
with a promise to pay the bills.
It was gathered that after the drinking and
merriment, the manager, Alaba, approached Bashir, telling him that his bill was
N145,000.
Trouble, however, started when the suspect said
he had only N36,000 and begged that he should be allowed to pay the balance in
installment.
A police prosecutor, Inspector Benedict
Aigbokhan, brought Bashir before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court on two counts of
conduct likely to cause breach of the peace and fraud.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty before
the presiding magistrate, Mrs. O.A. Akokhia, and was granted bail in the sum of
N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.
The case was adjourned till January 25, 2017.
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