The Wig and the Law
An Anambra orphan, Victoria Mbachu, on Friday told a Nnobi Chief Magistrate Court in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State how her boyfriend, Mr. Olufemi Salako, squandered her N10 million being the proceed from the family land she sold at Nnobi.
Mbachu sold the land to an American-based Nigerian, Mr. Bonaventure Ezekwenna, only for her live-in, Salako, to convince her to run to Ogun State with him so as to avoid Ezekwenna from taking possession of the land.
Salako is currently being detained at the Onitsha Correctional Center for allegedly conniving with a native doctor, Mr. Chijioke Okaa to force Mbachu to sign an agreement that she sold the land to the native doctor. Okaa and Salako are facing charges of conspiracy against Mbachu.
Answering questions under cross-examination by the counsel to Salako, Mr Tochukwu Arugbuonye, Mbachu said that as soon as they reached Ogun State, Salako withdrew the money and told her that he bought a house worth N2.8 million for her.
She said that the uncompleted bungalow Salako showed her was even paid in his name, adding that he has also spent the remaining N7.2 million. She further said that it was Salako who suggested that they should elope from Nnobi to his country, Benin Republic, where the buyer of the land could not locate them.
–thenigerialawyer.com
