….Another in court over burglary
A 35-year-old bricklayer, Onyekachi Samuel, was on Thursday arraigned in a Lugbe Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, over alleged breach of trust and building blocks theft.
Samuel of Lugbe Zone 5, Abuja, is facing charges bordering on criminal breach of trust, cheating by impersonating and theft.
The prosecutor, Francis Gabriel, told the court that the matter was reported at Trademore Police Station, Abuja, on July 13, by one Esther Ndukwe of Lugbe Airport Road, Abuja.
Gabriel informed the court that the complainant bought 8,000 pieces of blocks valued at N1.3 million from one Mrs Uloma Chijoke Block industry located at Pyakasa village, Lugbe.
He alleged that the defendant went to the block industry under the pretence that he was conveying the 8,000 blocks to the complainant’s site.
He told the court that the defendant went to the said block industry without the consent of the complainant and carried the blocks, dishonestly sold them and converted the proceeds to his own use.
The prosecutor said during police investigation, the defendant was caught and arrested in Ekiti State and that he confessed to the crime but that all efforts to recover the money proved abortive.
Gabriel said the offences contravened sections 312, 324 and 287 of the penal code.
The defendant pleaded not guilty, while the judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq,
granted him bail in the sum of N1 million, with one surety in like sum.
Sadiq said the surety must deposit N700,000 with the court registry and have reasonable means of livelihood and must reside within the court’s jurisdiction, which must be verified by the police orderly.
He adjourned the case until September 15 for hearing.
The defendant could not meet the terms of her bail and was therefore taken to the Suleja Correctional Facility. (NAN).
A 35-year-old bricklayer, Ibrahim Aliyu, who allegedly broke into a house and stole building materials worth N147, 000 on Thursday appeared in a Life Camp magistrate court.
The police charged Aliyu of Tipper Garage, Gwarinpa Abuja, with criminal trespass, housebreaking, and theft.
The police prosecutor, ASP Peter Ejike, of FCT Command, Abuja, told the court that the complainant, Alhaji Aderemi Akinose of CITEC Estate, Jabi
Abuja, reported the matter at the Gwarinpa Police Station on August 15.
The prosecutor alleged that the defendant acted in a dubious manner and criminally trespassed into the complainant’s house situated at Gwarinpa Estate.
Ejike alleged that the defendant stole two wooden doors valued at N50,000, a wash hand basin valued at N45,000, a door protector valued at N40,000, four electric bulbs and lamp holders valued at N12,000.
He said the defendant was later arrested and during police investigation, he could not give a satisfactory account of his mission in the house.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against him.
Chief Magistrate Celestine Odo, admitted the defendant to N100,000 bail with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case to October 15 for hearing. (NAN)