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  • 5 in court over alleged malicious damage to 4 cars

    5 in court over alleged malicious damage to 4 cars

    Five men on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court over alleged  malicious damage to four cars.

    The defendants: Nurudeen Bashiru, 24; Ebube Nwachin,18; Alade Olotu, 21; Idris Aina, 24, and Kayode Ogundare, 24, were  charged with  conspiracy, breach of the peace, unlawful display of arms in public and malicious damage.

    The prosecutor, Insp Adegoke Philip, alleged that the defendants and some others still at large committed the offences on Jan. 16 at Ebute-Meta, Lagos State.

    Philip said that the defendants conducted themselves in a manner likely to breach the peace by displaying arms in public.

    “The defendants displayed toy guns, cutlasses, scissors, iron rods among others, in such a manner as to cause terror to the residents of the area,” he told the court.

    He said that the defendants unlawfully damaged four cars belonging to Mrs Wale Fanire, Oladejo Ahmed, Rasheed Adekele and Kehinde Pedro.

    “They destroyed the windscreens, side mirrors, door glasses of two Honda accords,  property of Fanire and Adeleke, a Toyota Camry belonging to Ahmed and J4 bus, property of Pedro.

    “The value of the damaged vehicles is yet to be ascertained,” he said.

    The prosecutor said the alleged offences contravened Sections 51,168, 350 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Our correspondents reports that Section 51 prescribes two years’ jail term for unlawful display of arms while Section 350 attracts two years’ jail term for malicious damage.

    Following their pleas of not guilty, the Magistrate, Mrs O.A. Akokhia, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N50,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.

    Akokhia ruled that all the sureties should be gainfully employed and show evidence of two years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

    She adjourned the case until Feb. 18 for mention.

  • 3 sent to jail for phone theft

    3 sent to jail for phone theft

    An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Thursday  sentenced three men – Segun Adedeji, 22; Qudus Afolabi, 23, and Usman Ali, 22 – to six months’ imprisonment each, with hard labour,  for stealing three phones worth N140,000.

    The Magistrate, Mrs O.A. Aderibigbe, convicted the trio after they pleaded guilty to a three-count charge of conspiracy, assault and stealing.

    Aderibigbe held that the convicts should serve out their terms. She  did not give them an option of fine.

    “You are hereby sentenced to six months’ imprisonment each with hard labour.

    “The sentence would serve as a deterrent to others who might want to engage in similar acts,” she held.

    Daybreak reports that the convicts  pleaded guilty during arraignment on Jan. 30, and were remanded in the Kirikiri Custodian Centre.

    When the case was called up on Thursday for review of the facts and sentencing, the trio still admitted guilt.

    Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp. Mojirade Edeme, told the court that trio  and some others still at large committed the offences on Jan. 13 at Agege, Lagos.

    Edeme  said that they stole three phones belonging to Mrs Omolara Toyosi, Ubeta Daniel and Chika Iheanacho, respectively.

    “The defendants accosted the complainants on their way to work early in the morning; they beat them and threw Toyosi into a gutter.

    “They demanded their phones with a threat to kill them if they would refuse to comply.

    “The complainants surrendered their phones and the defendants took to their heels,” she said.

    Edeme said that the complainants raised an alarm.

    “Luckily, a police patrol team came around and chased the defendants.

    “The defendants were arrested while their accomplices escaped with the phones,” the prosecutor said.

    Edeme noted that the offences contravene Sections 287, 175 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.