FOOLISHNESS! Gambler Own N145,000 Debt While Celebrating N36,000 Sportbet Win at a Bar. (Pure Studity)

The police in Lagos have arrested a gambler, Yakubu Bashir, for alleged fraud at the Bendel Inn on Ipodo Road, Ikeja, Lagos. Bashir was picked up for his inability to pay for drinks and food worth N145,000.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Bashir had gone to the
hotel on Wednesday with his friends to celebrate winning a sports bet. He was said to have won N36,000. He reportedly ordered assorted drinks and
food for himself, his friends and other people in the bar, with a promise to pay the bills. It was gathered that after the drinking and merriment, the manager,Alaba, approached Bashir, telling him that his bill was N145,000. Trouble however, started when the suspect said he had only N36,000 and begged that he
should be allowed to pay the balance in installment.
Our correspondent learnt that in the ensuing
altercation, Bashir was detained, while the manager
reported the case at the Ikeja Police Division, leading
to his arrest. "I am an NCE holder and work as a
security guard in a hotel. On December 6, I placed a
sports bet and won N36,000. Out of happiness, I went
to the bar with my friends to celebrate my
breakthrough. The money was in my bank account. I
wanted to withdraw it the following morning because
we wanted to pass the night at the bar. I explained to
a waiter that I would give him N36,000 and pay him
up by January, but he refused," the 26-year-old
suspect reportedly told the police. A police
prosecutor, Inspector Benedict Aigbokhan, brought
Bashir before an Ikeja Magistrate's Court on two
counts of conduct likely to cause breach of the peace
and fraud. The charges read, "That you, Yakubu
Bashir, on December 7, 2016, at about 1.10am at
Bendel Inn on Ipodo Road, Ikeja, Lagos, in the Ikeja
Magisterial District, did conduct yourself in a manner
likely to cause a breach of the peace by ordering for
assorted drinks and food for your friends worth
N145,000 and refusing to pay, thereby committing an
offence punishable under Section 166 of the Criminal
Law, No. 11, Vol.44, Law of Lagos State of Nigeria,
2011. "That you, on the same date, time and place, in
the aforesaid magisterial district, did fraudulently
collect assorted drinks and food valued at N145,000
promising to pay, knowing same to be false, thereby
committing an offence punishable under Section 312
of the Criminal Law, No 11, Vol.44, Law of Lagos State
of Nigeria, 2011." The accused, however, pleaded not
guilty before the presiding magistrate, Mrs. O.A.
Akokhia, and was granted bail in the sum of N100,000
with two sureties in like sum. The case was
adjourned till January 25, 2017.