INTERNET FRAUD: NAIRA MARLEY ARRAIGNED, REMANDED IN PRISON CUSTODY
‘On May 20, 2019 arraigned a Nigerian artiste, Azeez Adeshina Fashola, also known as Naira Marley, before Justice Nicholas I. Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on an 11-count charge bordering on cybercrime’.
One of the counts reads: “That you, Azeez Adeshina Fashola, aka Naira Marley, and Yad isril (still at large), on or about the 26th day of November, 2018, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, conspired amongst yourself to use Access card no : 5264711020433662 issued to persons other than you in a bid to obtain gain and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 27(1) (b) of the Cybercrime Prohibition, Prevention etc Act 2015 and punishable under Section 33(2) of the same Act.”
Penpushing further reports that, Naira Marley pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him, and in view of his pleas, the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, asked the court for a trial date and also prayed for accelerated hearing of the case and urged the court to remand the defendant in prison custody.
The Counsel to the defendant, Taiwo Oluwa Ore- Agba, asked the court for a date to hear the bail application on behalf his client, and consequently, the case was adjourned to May 30, 2019 by the court.
Penpushing also reports that, the Judge, Justice Nicholas Oweibo further in his ruling ordered that the defendant should be remanded in prison custody pending the hearing of the bail application.
