A Lagos court docket has sentenced a pair, Harry Uyanwanne and Oluwakemi Odia, also called Kristein Uyanwanne, to 14 years’ imprisonment each for a N67.6 million property fraud.
The Economic and Financial Crimes (*14*), EFCC, disclosed this in an announcement, saying Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja delivered the judgement on Monday, November 2, 2026.
The court docket additionally ordered the defendants to refund the complete sum of N67,659,592 to the petitioner, Olusola Odemuyiwa.
The couple have been prosecuted by the EFCC Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 on a four-count cost of conspiracy, stealing, acquiring cash by false pretence and forgery. They pleaded not responsible at their arraignment.
During the trial, prosecution counsel, Fadeke Giwa, referred to as three witnesses and tendered a number of paperwork, whereas the defence referred to as one witness.
In her judgement, Justice Dada held that the prosecution had proved its case past cheap doubt and convicted the defendants on the primary three counts. However, she discharged them on the fourth rely, bordering on forgery.
The choose sentenced them to a few years’ imprisonment each for conspiracy, one yr for stealing and 10 years for acquiring cash by false pretence, with out an choice of a advantageous.
She additionally ordered that the primary defendant’s sentence be suspended till he’s apprehended.
One of the costs accused the couple of falsely claiming that they had authority to promote a property belonging to the beneficiaries of the property of the late Dr Moshood Babatunde Odemuyiwa.
The rely learn that, “Kemi Odia and Harry Uyanwanne (a.ok.a Ben Ololorma) someday in 2010 at Lagos inside the jurisdiction of this Honourable court docket by false pretence and intent to defraud offered the property often called No. 19 Murtala Mohammed Way, Ebute Meta, Oyingbo Lagos to 1 Harry Dyawanne for the sum of Sixteen Million Naira N16,000,000.00) on the false pretence illustration that you simply have been authorised to promote the property by the Bonalde Beneficiaries of the Estate of Late Dr Moshood Babatunde Odemuyiwa, which illustration you knew was false.”
The prosecution alleged that the couple conspired in 2010 to dishonestly take possession of property belonging to beneficiaries of the late Odemuyiwa’s property, opposite to Section 285(1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.
It additional alleged that they offered Plot 19, Murtala Mohammed Way, Ebute Meta, Oyingbo, Lagos, to Harry Dyawanne for N16 million, falsely claiming that that they had authorisation from the property’s legit beneficiaries to promote the property.
