By Dorcas Elusogbon
Ile-Ife (Osun), Nov. 30, 2018 (NAN) An Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun on Friday granted bail in the sum of N500,000 to a teenager (name withheld) charged with breaking into a carpenter’s workshop to steal some items.
The Magistrate, Mrs Adejumoke Ademola-Olowolagba, also ordered that the 14-year-old should produce two sureties in like sum, also as a condition for the bail.
Ademola-Olowolagba directed that the sureties should reside within the court’s jurisdiction and be civil servants of grade level 08 and above.
The teenager is standing trial on a five-count charge of conspiracy, stealing, break-in, malicious damage and possessing goods without receipt.
He, however, pleaded not guilty to all the counts.
According to the prosecutor, Insp. Emmanuel Abdullahi, the teenager stole one Qlink stabiliser, a Top Bond glue, a pair of school sandals and upholstery leather.
He said that the accused was also found with one Panasonic television without a purchasing receipt.
Abdullahi submitted that the accused committed the offences on Nov. 29, at 12:30a.m. at the Taxi Driver Area of Modakeke-Ife.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the alleged offences contravene Sections 383, 390 (9), 430 and 508 of the Criminal Law of Osun, 2003.
The case has been adjourned until Dec. 17 for mention.
