Lagos cashier drags mother to court over N11,000 fraud, escapes from dock

 Lagos cashier drags mother to court over N11,000 fraud, escapes from dock

Controversy has been trailing the disappearance of a cashier of the Eat ‘N’ Go Limited, operating at the company’s Coldstone Creamery branch in Abule Ado, Moses Ojo, during his arraignment by the Lagos State Police Command at a Magistrate’s Court sitting in the Apapa area of the state.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the company suspected that its workers had been carrying out fraudulent transactions by using their accounts to trade with customers.

In a bid to trace those involved in the fraudulent transactions, it was learnt that the company reported the case to the police and during the investigation, the police arrested Ojo.

Thereafter, the police took Ojo to court and when the case was called for hearing, the Magistrate, during cross-examination of the defendant, discovered that he was in court on the allegation of defrauding the company of N11, 000.

In a chat with our correspondent on Monday, Ojo’s sister, Nifemi, said the magistrate, during the court proceedings, gave the complainant and the defendant an option to settle the matter out of court.

Nifemi said, “A customer told my brother about having issues with transfer. So, he asked my brother if he had an OPay or Palmpay account. My brother told him he has and the customer begged him if he could transfer to him, but my brother said it was an offence as the company does not allow such.

“The customer pleaded and told him he would wait for him to confirm the transaction which he did. He immediately sent the money to the company and then informed his General Manager who told him he should have called him before doing such as nobody would believe he was trying to help.