Surety arraigned for allegedly failing to produce suspect.

The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned a 34-year-old man, Segun Suru, for his alleged failure to produce a suspect for whom he stood as a surety.

Docked before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court on a count charge, Suru pleaded not guilty.

The prosecutor, Sgt Seun Adeleke, told the court that Suru stood as a surety for one Tobi Yekini, a suspected thief, at the Area ‘G’ Police Command, Ogba in Ikeja.

Adeleke said the defendant pledged to always produce Yekini whenever he was needed until the latter’s case was disposal of.

He said Suru failed to produce Yekini on July 23 when he was needed at the police command, noting that the non-production of the suspect breached Section 18 of the Criminal Procedure Law.

Magistrate O.G. Oghre granted Suru bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum, and adjourned the case till Oct. 6 for further hearing.

In another development, a 30-year-old unemployed man, Kingsley Isikwe, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court for allegedly robbing one Mr Emeka Eze of N106,500 and gold jewelry at gunpoint.

Isikwe was charged with conspiracy and armed robbery before Magistrate Teslim Elias.

The prosecutor, Insp. Barth Nwokenye, said Isikwe and some others at large invaded Eze’s residence with guns and dispossessed him of the money and the gold worth N250,000.

Nwokenye said Isikwe and the others also removed Eze’s wristwatch worth N15,000.

He said the alleged armed robbery occurred on July 19 at Elepe Village in Ikorodu.

The prosecutor said the alleged offence was punishable with death under Section 1(2) of the Armed Robbery and Firearms Special Provision Act.

The court could not take Isikwe’s plea as Elias said that he needed the advice of the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions.

He, however, remanded the accused in prison custody pending the DPP’s advice.

The magistrate adjourned the case till Sept. 15.