A Lagos courtroom has sentenced a pair, Harry Uyanwanne and Oluwakemi Odia, also referred to as Kristein Uyanwanne, to 14 years’ imprisonment each for a N67.6 million property fraud.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, 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 courtroom additionally ordered the defendants to refund the total sum of N67,659,592 to the petitioner, Olusola Odemuyiwa.
The couple had 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 affordable doubt and convicted the defendants on the primary three counts. However, she discharged them on the fourth depend, bordering on forgery.
The decide sentenced them to 3 years’ imprisonment each for conspiracy, one 12 months for stealing and 10 years for acquiring cash by false pretence, with out an choice of a wonderful.
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 depend learn that, “Kemi Odia and Harry Uyanwanne (a.k.a Ben Ololorma) sometime in 2010 at Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court by false pretence and intent to defraud sold the property known as No. 19 Murtala Mohammed Way, Ebute Meta, Oyingbo Lagos to one Harry Dyawanne for the sum of Sixteen Million Naira N16,000,000.00) on the false pretence representation that you were authorised to sell the property by the Bonalde Beneficiaries of the Estate of Late Dr Moshood Babatunde Odemuyiwa, which representation 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 bought 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 official beneficiaries to promote the property.
