New Year Outing: Lady Charged For Failing To Pay N440,000 Nightclub Bill

A 25-year-old woman, Ayisat Haruna, on Tuesday appeared before a Lagos Magistrates Cout for failing to pay her N441,700 bill at a nightclub on New Year day.

The police charged Haruna with two counts of conspiracy and theft after the man she went with to the club disappeared.

She pleaded not guilty.

The Prosecution Counsel, Sgt. Rukayat Ogundeji, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Jan. 1, at No 67, Club thirty-eight, Bode Thomas, Surulere, Lagos.

Ogundeji alleged that Haruna and her accomplice, ordered for the following:

• A bottle of Hennessy worth N40,000,
• Two bottles of Pepsi pet; N1000,
• A packet of Benson switch N700
• And 10 bottles of Moet Nectar Imper N400,000.

She submitted that Haruna who was in the company of a man, now at large,  consumed the drinks.

Ogundeji said that the offence contravened the provisions of sections 287 (5) (e) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

Magistrate Oluwalase Abayomi admitted Haruna to bail in the sum of N50,000 with two responsible sureties in like sum.

Abayomi, who ordered that the sureties must be gainfully employed and show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government, adjourned the case until March 17 for substantive trial.

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