Man docked for stealing foodstuff worth N20,000
A Badagry Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, on Friday ordered that a 23-year-old man, Elijah Oguntayo, who pleaded guilty to stealing foodstuff be remanded in prison.
Oguntayo, whose address was not given, pleaded guilty to breaking, entering and theft.
Chief Magistrate Fadahunsi Adefioye ordered that Oguntayo be remanded in the Awhajigoh Correctional Centre, Badagry, pending sentencing.
Adefioye adjourned the case until April 12.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, ASP Clément Okuoimose said the defendant broke into the shop of Mrs Kate Marceline, the complainant.
Okuoimose said that Oguntayo stole semolina, eggs, beans, rice, palm oil, groundnut oil, noodles, milk, spaghetti, onions and slippers worth N20,000.
The offence, he said, contravened sections 308 and 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
