Posted on: 11:39 Fri, 27 Nov 2015



An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on
Thursday remanded a 30-year-old
unemployed man, Emmanuel Ijoko, in
Kirikiri Prisons for stealing a pair of
jeans-trousers valued at N3,500.

The Magistrate, Mrs M.O. Osinbajo,
remanded the accused after he had
pleaded guilty to the offence of
stealing.

Osinbajo adjourned the case till Dec.
4 for sentencing. The accused lives at
6, Ilo St., Off Ipodo Street, Ikeja. The
prosecutor, Insp. Frank Inah, told the
court that the offence was committed
on Nov. 23 at Shop 35, Obafemi
Awolowo Way, Ikeja.

Inah said that the complainant, Mr
Joseph Ogba, was inside his shop
attending to customers when the
accused stole a pair of jeans-trousers
displayed outside the shop.

“He was almost going when someone
from the other shop sighted him and
ran after him. “The value of the
jeans-trousers is N3,500 and the
offence contravened Section 285 of
the Criminal Law of Lagos State,
2011,” he said.