The Justice of the Peace Courtroom in Yaba, Lagos Circumstance has ordered the remand of Adeagbo Oluwagbeminiyi, Oluwagbenga Alex, and Obinna Igwe for allegedly stealing 5,000 litres of diesel usefulness N5,250,000.
They had been arraigned on Friday by means of the Lagos Circumstance Police Command sooner than Justice of the Peace O.Y. Adefope on 3 counts of acquiring items by means of fraudelant pretence, stealing, and fraudulently acquiring 5,000 litres of diesel.
The fees alleged that on April 24, 2024, at Surulere, Lagos Circumstance, the defendants fauxed to want 5,000 litres of diesel and stole its usefulness of N5,250,000 from one Elegamhe Frank.
PUNCH Metro accumulated {that a} document used to be made on the police station by means of Elegamhe on April 24, 2024, declaring that he used to be defrauded by means of the defendants, who fauxed that they wanted 5,000 litres of diesel, and that then the sale, the cash could be remitted to his account. Alternatively, he claimed that then the diesel used to be delivered, all efforts to achieve them proved abortive.
Upcoming the document used to be made, the defendants had been invited to the police station, wondered, and volunteered their statements, confirming that they purchased the diesel however had but to pay the complainant.
Prosecutor Haruna Magaji knowledgeable the courtroom that the alleged offences had been dedicated on April 24, 2024, at Surulere, Lagos Circumstance, and contravened Category 411, 314(i)(a)(2), and 287(d) of the Felony Rules of Lagos Circumstance of Nigeria, 2015.
He additionally mentioned that the statements of the defendants and the complainant grant as proof in opposition to the defendants.
The defendants pleaded no longer responsible to the fees in opposition to them.
Adefope ordered a bail bond of N300,000 to be paid and two sureties each and every to be supplied.
She additionally mentioned that the defendants be remanded in police custody till they’d perfected their bail statuses.
The case used to be adjourned till July 31, 2024, for additional listening to.
PUNCH Metro reported in June that Jeremiah Sefan and Williams David had been arraigned for allegedly stealing 400 litres of diesel usefulness N420,000 from an ice-making corporate the place they labored as safety guards and corporate drivers, respectively.
They had been stuck on a Closed Circuit Tv pictures which discoverable that they dedicated the alleged crimes. They had been therefore arrested and charged in courtroom.