Lawyer charged to court for allegedly defrauding Landmark University

Temidayo Eseyin a pastor with the  Living Faith Church also known as Winners Chapel has been arraigned by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday for allegedly defrauding Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, to the tune of N19.3 million.

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Eseyin, a lawyer and former member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin Branch, was docked on a four-count bordering on dishonest misappropriation of funds belonging to the University before Justice Funsho Lawal of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin.

It was gathered that Eseyin during his time as the counsel/attorney to Landmark University was granted access to the institution’s properties, title documents and funds.

However, it was discovered that Eseyin was allegedly  “cheating, defrauding, misappropriating and shortchanging his client to her utmost dismay”.

Specifically in one of his alleged atrocities, the defendant, between 2014 and 2022 managed a property known as “Old Midland Building” belonging to Landmark University, situated along Emir’s/Obbo Road, Ilorin, which rents Eseyin collected for 8 years and could not produce when asked.

The petitioner also alleged that Eseyin attempted to sell the property without instructions from the university, hence, the petition to the EFCC.

Count three of the charge reads, “That you, Temidayo Eseyin sometime in the year 2021, in Ilorin Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court dishonestly misappropriated the sum of Six Million, Sixty Four Thousand Naira Only (6, 064,000) representing payment of rent on property known as Old Midland Building belonging to Landmark University and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 of the Penal Code Law and Punishable under Section 309 of the same Law.”