commercial driver, Thompson Oromoro, has been brought before
an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, for allegedly stealing a carton
containing 53 pieces of mobile phones valued at N1.2m.
The defendant was arraigned on Monday on one count of
stealing before a presiding magistrate, Mrs. O.A. Akokhia.
A police prosecutor, Inspector Benedict Aigbokhan, told the
court that one Oludare Oyewonyi, who lived in Benin, Edo State, had given the
phones to Oromoro for delivery to a customer in Iyana Ipaja, Lagos State, but
the defendant allegedly diverted them.
The suspect said he stopped on his way to Lagos to eat at a
restaurant, but discovered that the phones had been stolen on getting back to
where the car was parked.
The charge read, “That you, Thompson Oromoro, on January 3,
2017, at about 7pm at Iyana Ipaja, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did steal
a carton containing 53 pieces of handsets valued at N1,209,500, property of one
Oludare Oyewonyi, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 285(1)
of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.’’
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The magistrate, Akokhia, granted the accused bail in the sum
of N300,00 and adjourned the case till July 11, 2017.
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