A 56-year-old Ghanaian, Henry Djaba, on Tuesday appeared in a Gwagwalada Magistrates Court for allegedly cheating Trobell international Nigeria Limited of $12,000.
The police charged Djaba, who lives in Garki, Federal Capital Territory, with criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The Prosecution Counsel, Dabo Yakubu, told the court that the defendant on November 13, 2020 chartered a flight from Trobell Aviation Limited from Abuja to Malabo and Malabo to Accra and back to Abuja.
Yakubu said the charted flight was flown by Captain Aliyu Ahmed and Captain Luka and all parties agreed that the defendant would pay $12,000 for the flight.
He added that after the service was rendered to the defendant, he failed to pay the flight fare.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Defence Counsel, Bamaiyi Adejo, in his oral bail application prayed the court to allow his client maintain the administrative bail of $35,000 granted to him at the police station.
Adejo added that a former senator was already standing as a surety for the defendant.
He said the defendant would not jump bail, adding that his ECOWAS passport was confiscated by the police.
Magistrate Punarimam Balogun granted the application of the defence counsel that the defendant should maintain the administrative bail condition already given by the police.
Balogun in addition to the bail condition ordered that the senator should swear to an affidavit pledging to present the defendant in court on any given date.
She adjourned the case until October 14 for hearing.
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