An Ilorin-based Associate Pastor with the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel, Temidayo Eseyin, has been docked for allegedly defrauding Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State to the tune of N19.3million.
He was arraigned before Justice Funsho Lawal of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Command.
Eseyin, a lawyer and former member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin Branch, was docked on a four-count charge bordering on dishonest misappropriation of funds belonging to the University.
In a petition to the EFCC, it was alleged that Mr. Eseyin, as a counsel/Attorney to Landmark University, Omu-Aran had access to its properties, title documents and funds.
In that assumed capacity, it was alleged that Mr. Eseyin was cheating, defrauding, misappropriating and shortchanging his client.
Specifically in one of his alleged atrocities, the defendant, between 2014 – 2022 managed a property known as “Old Midland Building” belonging to Landmark University, situated along Emir’s/Obbo Road, Ilorin, which rents, Mr. Eseyin collected for eight years but could not it produce when asked.
The petitioner also alleged that Mr. Eseyin attempted to sell the property without instructions from the University, hence, the petition to the EFCC.