Police charge three soldiers, others for affirmed equipped theft

Policemen joined to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State charge on Wednesday summoned three expelled fighters, a rejected Air Force Officer, a last year understudy and three others for purportedly taking sun oriented boards and batteries having a place with Lagos State government and MTN broadcast communications. 

The denounced: Samuel Ani, Ifedayo Odufuye, Michael Omerede, Chibuze Nnamani, Philip Emmanuel Efosa, Ex-private Sulaimon Usman, ex-private Olalekan Sunday, and ex-private Olafide Busayo, were summoned at the Ikeja judge's court on a four-tally charge verging on equipped theft and connivance. 

Tally one read: "That between December 12, 2016 and September 12, 2017 along Ibeju-Lekki Expressway, Mojada zone of Epe and Badagry territories of Lagos, you stole 120 bits of reinforcement batteries esteemed at N32,640,000; 69 bits of sunlight based board batteries esteemed at N42,699,000, property of IPT Power Tech/MTN media communications and in this manner culpable under area 297(2) of the criminal law of Lagos state 2015." 

In the interim, a blamed criminal claiming to rummage around the premises of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Olalekan Rauf, 33, was Wednesday summoned under the watchful eye of a Magistrate's Court holden in Iwo Road zone of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on a two-tally charge of intrigue and unlawful ownership. 

The prosecutor, Inspector E. Adeyeye, told the court that the respondent and one other individual on October 12, around 2:00p.m. gone into the place of one of the ranking staff of the organization to take some profitable things. 

A security officer of the organization, who captured the charged, Mr. Yahaya Taofeek, said Rauf claiming to be a forager, picked some non-serviceable metals around the foundation however later burgled a three bed-room level having a place with one of the ranking staff of the establishment, who was outside the state on an instruction visit. 

As indicated by Taofeek, before the respondent was captured, he had wrecked all the stolen iron and metal things for individuals to trust the things are not any more helpful. The stolen things incorporate cooking iron pot, stabilizer, PC set, palm shoes, power change over and cooking gas. 

He said when he caught him, the respondent argued that he would participate with the security of the foundation on the off chance that they guarantee not to harm him, including that the other individual from the group had fled. Be that as it may, the blamed, argued not blameworthy of the charges when it was perused to him in court. 

The senior justice, S. O Babalola, conceded him N20,000 safeguard with two surety and deferred the case to November 20 for the further hearing.