Commercial driver lands in court for allegedly stealing 53 phones worth N1.2m

The Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, played host to the case of a commercial driver identified as Thompson Oromoro who allegedly stole a box containing 53 phones worth the sum of N1.2 million.

While addressing the court presided over by magistrate, Mrs. O.A. Akokhia, the prosecutor, Inspector Benedict Aigbokhan, said that one Oludare Oyewonyi, who lives in Benin, Edo State, gave the accused a carton containing the phones but instead he diverted them.

Oromoro had revealed earlier that he was asked to deliver the phones to a customer in Iyana Ipaja, Lagos State, but on his way to Lagos, he stopped to eat at a restaurant, but when he got back to his vehicle to continue the journey, he could not find the carton filled with phones.

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While reading the charge against the accused, the prosecutor said; “That you, Thompson Oromoro, on January 3, 2017, at about 7pm at Iyana Ipaja, 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.’’

Before adjourned the case till July 11, 2017, Akokhia granted the accused who pleaded not guilty to the charge, bail in the sum of N300,000.

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