$1.6m dud cheques: Court fixes date for trial of Redeemed pastor
An Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos, has adjourned the trial of an Oil marketer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Oluokun, who was charged before the court on alleged issuance of dud cheques valued $1.6 million, till October 10.
Ayodeji, who is said to be an Assistant Pastor of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), City of David Parish, Victoria Island, Lagos, was charged before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo led-court alongside his oil firm, Peak Petroleum Industry Nigeria Limited, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on two counts charge of the offence.
The defendant and his company were first arraigned before the court on January 21, 2019, on the offence.
EFCC in a charge marked ID/8509c/19, alleged hat the defendant and his company, sometimes in 2014, approached the management of GOSL Nigeria Limited, for a loan of $1 million and $666,666 respectively to enable him carry out operation activities in his company’s oil field in Bayelsa State.
He was said to have assured the company which is the complainant in the charge against him, that he would repay the money within a year.
Following the defendant’s failure to repay the loan as promised, he was alleged to have issued two post-dated Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Limited cheques dated June 26, 2014 for the sum of $1 million and $666,666 respectively.