The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned a security guard and a commercial motorcyclist over alleged conspiracy and theft of jewelry worth N1.5 million.
The accused -- Ali Musa (24) and John Adamu (25) -- were charged before a Surulere Chief Magistrate’s Court but they pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Insp. Olaide Sunday, submitted that Musa and Adamu broke into the house of one Mrs Irene Johnson and stole assorted gold jewelry on July 29.
Sunday said the duo also made away with two expired international passports belonging to Johnson.
He said the accused committed the alleged theft at Block J, Flat 5, LSDPC Executive Suites, Games Village, off Bode Thomas St., Surulere.
He noted that the alleged offences were punishable with seven years’ imprisonment under Sections 516, 411 (1) and 390 (9) of the Criminal Code of Lagos State.
Chief Magistrate Abiola Soladoye granted the accused bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties each, and adjourned the case till Sept. 10 for further hearing.
In a related development, a Surulere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos on Wednesday granted bail in the sum of N50,000 to a 30-year-old housemaid arraigned for allegedly stealing jewelry worth N180,600.
Magistrate Mukaila Fadeyi granted bail to the housemaid, Abosede Nowel, after she pleaded not guilty to stealing the jewelry belonging to her master,Ridwan Badejo.
Fadeyi ordered the housemaid to produce two sureties, also as a condition for the bail.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Idowu Onime, had told the court that Nowel and others still at large stole the jewelry on July 15.
Onime said the accused and the others also stole Badejo’s N3,800.
He said the alleged theft took place at No. 1 Ajao St., Surulere, noting that it contravened Sections 516 and 390 (9) of the Criminal Code of Lagos State.
The court adjourned the case till Sept. 9 for further hearing.
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