A suspected burglar, Mohammed Assan, has been arraigned in a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court, Ibadan, for allegedly stealing window blinds, bedsheets and home appliances worth N232,500.
By Olawale Akinremi
A suspected burglar, Mohammed Assan, has been arraigned in a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court, Ibadan, for allegedly stealing window blinds, bedsheets and home appliances worth N232,500.
Assan, on Tuesday, however, pleaded not guilty to the three-count charge of conspiracy, breaking and stealing levelled against him by the police.
The court’s president, Mrs S.M. Akintayo, admitted the middle-aged defendant to bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum.
Akintayo added that one of the sureties must be a community leader, with both showing evidence of tax payments to the Oyo State Government.
She, thereafter, adjourned the matter until Aug. 20 for hearing.
The prosecuting counsel, Insp Ayodeji Ayeni, had told the court that the defendant allegedly committed the crime on May 20 at AL-HAQ House, Asi-Bodija, Ibadan.
Ayeni alleged that Assan, with others now at large, broke into the home of one Ajewole Alebiosu to steal a generating set, a Plasma TV and a home-theatre machine.
According to the prosecutor, a three and seven-kilogramme gas cylinders, an 18-inch mattress, a standing fan, window blinds and bedsheets were also allegedly stolen.
He put the total cost of the stolen items at N232,500.
He noted that the offences contravened the provisions of Sections 516, 412 and 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Vol. II, Law of Oyo State 2000. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)