A Federal High Court, Lagos, has issued a bench warrant against a United Kingdom-based Nigerian woman, Ade-coker Suzan Motunrayo Odunola, over alleged fraud of N14, 322, 172 million.
Justice Musa Kakaki, who presided over the court, issued the bench warrant today, sequel to the application made by the the prosecutor, Barrister Williams Tijani, a Legal Officer at the Force Criminal Investigation Department (ForceCID) Annex Alagbon-Ikoyi, Lagos.
The defendant, Ade-coker Suzan Motunrayo Odunola, is being charged before in a charge marked FHC/L/983c/2025.
In the charge, the she was accused of obtained the sum of N14, 322, 172, 00, from one Raphael Salisu, under the guise and pretence that she can procure United Kingdom certificate of sponsorship for the fraud victim.
The offences according to the prosecutor are contrary to and punishable sections 1{1)(c} and punishable under section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other related Offences Act 2006. And section 390 of the criminal Code Act LFN 2004.
The matter has come up before the court more than two occasions.
However, at the resumed hearing of the matter today, the prosecutor, Barrister Williams informed the court that the defendant was nowhere to be found.
The prosecutor, after citing plethoras of legal authorites, prayed the court to issue a bench warrant against the defendant.
Justice Kakaki after listening to the prosecutor, ordered that a bench warrant be issued against the defendant.
The judge thereafter adjourned the matter to March 2, 2026, for report of compliance/arrraignment of the defendant.
Charges Against The Defendant read: “That you, Ade-Coker Suzan Motunrayo Odunola “f”, between sometimes in September 2024 at Lagos within the Judicial Division of the Federal High Court, did by false pretense and with intent to defraud obtained the sum of Fourteen million, three hundred and twenty two thousand one hundred and seventy two naira (14, 322, 172, 00) from one Raphael Salisu under the guise and pretence that you will procure United Kingdom certificate of sponsorship for him a representation you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1{1)(c} and punishable under section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other related Offences Act 2006,
“That you Ade-Coker Suzan Motunrayo Odunola “f’, on the same date, time and place, and in the aforementioned Judicial Division did steal the sam of Fourteen million, three hundred and twenty-two thousand one hundred and seventy-two-naira (N14, 322, 172, 00) property of Raphael Salisu, and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 390 of the criminal Code Act LFN 2004.”
