Theft
By Ugochi Joy Ugochukwu
Abuja, June 27, 2024(NAN) Two Carpenters, Solomon Sunday and Umar Danjuman, were on Thursday, arraigned before a Zuba Magistrates’ Court, Abuja for allegedly stealing a furniture machine.
Sunday and Danjuman who reside at Tungamaji Zuba, Abuja, are being charged with criminal conspiracy and theft.
The Prosecutor, Chinedu Ogada, told the court that the complainant, Onakpami Emmanuel, a Security Guard at Three Plus Construction Company, reported the matter at the Zuba Police Station on June 8.
Ogada said that the defendants conspired with another, identified as Zakaria, now at large, to commit the offense at about 11.00p.m on June 5.
“They entered into the premises of the firm, Three Plus Construction Company, and stole a furniture machine.
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 97 of the Penal Code.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Magistrate, Mr Abdulazeez Mohammed granted the defendants bail in the sum of N300,000 each, with a surety each in like sum.
Mohammed ordered that the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and should produce reliable means of identification.
He further ordered that the surety’s address must be verified, and thereafter, adjourned the case until July 2 for hearing.(NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
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Edited by Azubuike Okeh
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