A Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Igbosere has ordered the remand of a 39-year-old woman, Mrs. Abiola Remi-Loius, and her mother, Medinat Olusesan, in police custody.
Abiola and 67-year-old Olusesan were arraigned on two counts bordering on forgery and lying on oath by the police from the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, before a magistrate, Mrs. J. O. A. Adepoju.
Abiola had reportedly packed out from Akanbi Crescent, Yaba, where she lived with her husband, Aderemi, and went to live with a lover, Olusegun Asogban.
PUNCH Metro learnt that she initiated a court process at the Lagos High Court for a divorce.
In October 2015, Asogban was arraigned before a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court after Aderemi petitioned the Zone 2 Police Command over threat-to-life text messages he (Asogban) allegedly sent to his phone.
Asogban pleaded not guilty to the two counts preferred against him and was granted bail in the sum of N200,000.
Our correspondent gathered that Abiola’s mother and a man stood as sureties for Asogban and ensured the perfection of his bail. She reportedly told the court that Asogban was her in-law.
“After his release, the defendant (Asogban) petitioned the Inspector-General of Police in November that the complainant was harassing him and the petition was referred to zone 2 by the IG for investigation. We invited Aderemi for interrogation, but there was no evidence to prosecute him.
“In January, 2016, Aderemi wrote a petition against his wife, accusing her of incorporating Skin Speaks, which is the trademark of their company, Vik-M-Vik, without his consent. He also maintained that her mother-in-law lied on oath by identifying herself as an in-law to Asogban,” a police source said.
The source added that after an investigation, it was discovered that Abiola had sometime in October 2012 forged a document purportedly signed by a lawyer, Ilori Folorunsho, to register the trademark of Vik-M-Vik – a cosmetics firm, originally owned by her and her husband – as another company entirely.
Abiola and her mother, Olusesan, were subsequently arraigned by a police prosecutor, Inspector Ibrahim Haruna.
The charges read in part, “That you, Mrs. Abiola Remi-Luis, on October 10, 2012, at Akanbi Crescent, Yaba, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did forge one official document to incorporate Skin Speaks Services Limited Company, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 363 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.”
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and were admitted to bail in the sum of N50,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.
Adjourning till September 6, 2016, the magistrate, Adepoju, ordered that the defendants be kept in the custody of the zone 2 command pending when they would be able to perfect their bail conditions.
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