NAN-H-62
Phone
By Deborah Akpede
Lagos, Oct. 11, 2016 (NAN) For allegedly snatching a N150,000 phone and N30,000 cash from a woman in the traffic, a commercial motorcyclist, Sunday Ojo, was on Tuesday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.
Ojo, whose address is unknown, is being tried for conspiracy and stealing.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Micheal Unah told the court that the accused committed the offences on Oct. 5 at Oshodi Oke on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.
Unah said the accused and others still at large conspired to snatch a phone valued at N150,000 and N30,000 cash, property of a motorist, Mrs Folashade Adebayo.
“The accused collected the complainant’s Samsung phone.”
Unah said the complainant was in traffic when the accused approached her, pointing different weapons at her threatening to kill if she refused to comply.
“The complainant was driving her car towards Oshodi and there was a traffic jam, the accused and others approached her to surrender her phone and money.
“They pointed knives, cutlasses and other weapons at her threatening to kill her if she refused to obey.
“One of the accused snatched her phone and the other took her bag which contained N30,000 and took to their heels, then the complainant raised an alarm.
“Some good Samaritans gave them a hot chase but only the accused was arrested, while his accomplices escaped with the phone and money,” he said.
The offences contravened Sections 285 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
Section 285 provides a three-year imprisonment for offenders.
The accused pleaded innocence of the offences and was granted bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum.
The Magistrate, Mrs O.A. Gbajumo, adjourned the case to Oct. 19 for mention. (NAN)
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