Online customer turn debtor, issues dud cheque

A boutique operator at 5 Education Close , UNILAG Estate, Magodo , Lagos , Mrs . Bola Omidiji , says her business is on the bedge of collapse after a customer paid N 496 ,000 dud cheques for goods bought from her .

The debtor , Babatope Adeeso , had reportedly bought pairs of shoes , wristwatches , perfumes and clothes , for himself , his wife and children from Omidiji sometime in April 2017 .
Report say that Adeeso , who is an executive member of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria , Ore depot , had wanted to pay for the items through PoS , which was not available at the shop .
He reportedly asked the woman to follow him to a branch of Guaranty Trust Bank in the area to transfer the money via an Automated Teller Machine .

Omidiji told our correspondent that after failed attempts to transfer the money , Adeeso collected her account number and promised to effect the payment later that day .
She said she became apprehensive when Adeeso did not pay the money into her account several days later and she called him on the telephone .

He said he was having issues with his business and pleaded with me to give him some time . After some weeks , I started calling him again. In July, he gave me cheques of N 496 , 000 . My mother died at that time and I needed part of the money to do her burial .
“ He split the payment arrangements into three tranches dated July 17 , July 21 and August 18 , 2017 . I presented the cheques at the bank twice , but they were dishonoured. ”
Omidiji said afterwards , Adeeso hardly picked her calls , adding that she eventually learnt that the bank account on which he made the cheques out to her was his late father ’ s company account .
According to Adeso" What happened is more than what she told you . But that is not the issue for now . As of the time I bought those goods from her , I never had any intention of issuing cheques . It was when she kept pressurising me that I gave her the cheques under duress .
“ The cheques were just an assurance that I would give her the money. The issue between us is a business transaction . She calls my relatives who were not there when we were transacting and keeps threatening me with abusive words . Business is not moving this time , but any time I try to communicate that with her , she flares up . She should give me till the end of February , but if she wants to take it up , IPMAN cannot cough up money from my pockets and heaven will not fall . ”
But Omidiji expressed doubts on Adeeso ’ s pledge , saying he would not pay at the end of February .