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Traders’ chairman in court for stealing N5m

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8 years ago

April 14, 2016

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A 45-year-old man, Ikenna Enendu, the Chairman of traders dealing in footwear at the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway has been arrested and promptly arraigned in court for stealing the sum of N5 million belonging to a Chinese trader.

According to the police, Enendu and others who are at large allegedly attacked the shop of the Chinese man identified as Tony Chan, who also deals in footwear, damaging his car and making away with the said sum.

After his arrest by policemen of the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Enendu was arraigned in court on a five-count charge of stealing, assault and conduct likely to cause breach of peace in public.

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But few hours to his arraignment, a mild drama played out at the court premises as some 80 traders loyal to Enendu protested his arrest saying he was “being victimised”.

Sergeant Innocent Odugbo, the prosecutor told the presiding magistrate Mrs. O.N. Ajayi, that Enendu and his cohorts committed offences which contravened sections 409, 385, 338, 44 (4) and 174 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

“That you, Ikenna Enendu, and others now at large, on November 13, 2015, at about 11am, at Lagos International Trade Fair Complex, APT wing, Ojo, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to steal cash sum of N5m, property of one Tony Chan, a Chinese,” the charges read in part.

Continuing, the prosecutor said; “That you, and others now at large, on the same date, time and place, in the aforesaid magisterial district, did willfully and maliciously damage a Nissan Pathfinder windscreen and mirror, property of Tony Chan, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 338 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.”

The presiding magistrate Mrs. O.N. Ajayi adjourned the case till April 26th and put the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum for the bail of the defendant who pleaded not guilty.

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