After
pleading guilty to stealing two phones valued at N104,000, a 25-year-old
unemployed man, Titi Seun, was on Thursday remanded in prison on the orders of
an
Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.
According to
a ruling by the Magistrate, Mrs Y.O. Ekogbulu, the accused, whose residential
address is unknown, is to remain behind bars in Kirikiri Prisons pending
sentence at the next date of adjournment.
Prosecutor
Clement Okuoimose had told the court that the accused committed the offence on
Dec. 6 at Dopemu, Agege, Lagos.
He said the
accused stole two phones valued at N104,000 property of Mr Samuel Ikenna.,
using a rope.
“The accused
stole the complainant’s Samsung J7 valued at N96,000 and an itel phone worth
N8,000 totalling N104,000.”
Okuoimose
said the accused stole the complainant’s phones through the window.
“The
complainant woke up from sleep and discovered that his two phones which he was
charging had disappeared.
“He saw a
long rope with nail which the accused used to remove the phones from the
charger.
“The
complainant called the phones several times but the accused refused to pick and
he called one of the phones several days later and a lady picked it and told
him that the owner was not around.
“The
complainant told the lady to give him her own number in case he calls the
owner’s number and it is not going through he can call her and that he has an
important message for the owner of the phone,” he said.
“The lady
gave the complainant her number and that led to the arrest of the accused.”
However, the
accused who later confessed to the crime, attributed it to the handiwork of the
devil as he pleaded for mercy.
The offence
contravened Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 which
prescribes three years jail term as penalty.
The
magistrate has fixed Jan. 10 for sentence.
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