Serial iPhone Thief Seun Egbegbe Who Has Spent 20 Months In Prison Will Appear In Court Today

Serial phone thief and Nollywood film-maker, Olajide Kazeem,a.k.a Seun Egbegbe, has so far spent about 20 months in prison For failure to meet the N5m bail granted him by the Federal High Court in Lagos

The erstwhile Lagos socialist has been locked up since February 10, 2017, after he was arraigned by the police for alleged serial frauds involving N39, 098,100, $90,000 and £12,550.

The police alleges that Egbegbe fraudulently obtained the money from no fewer than 40 Bureau De Change operators in Lagos over a period of two years – 2015 to 2017.

He was said to have allegedly swindled the BDC operators by falsely representing to them that he had naira to change into foreign currencies and vice versa.


Egbegbe, alongside one Oyekan Ayomide, was first arraigned on February 10, 2017 before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, on 36 counts bordering on advance fee fraud. On February 24, 2017, Justice Oguntoyinbo granted each of them N5m bail with two sureties in like sum.


Justice Oguntoyinbo ordered that the defendants should be remanded in the prison custody until they meet the bail conditions.

 20 months after the bail was granted, Egbegbe, who was known for lavish spending, has, however, remained in the Ikoyi Prison custody, as he has not been able to meet the bail conditions.


The police prosecutor, Anyigor, had told the court that he had no fewer than 40 witnesses, including the BDC operators, who would testify against Egbegbe and his co-defendants in court.


The case was last heard on November 1, 2018 and it is billed to resume on Monday (today) for continuation of trial.

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