By Deborah Akpede
Ikeja – After pleading guilty to stealing a truck and goods valued at N10 million, a 30-year-old driver, Ganiyu Umaru, was on Thursday remanded in Kirikiri Prisons.
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court which gave the ruling, said the man should remain behind bars pending sentence.
Umaru, 30, and a resident of Sagamu in Ogun, had pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing before the Magistrate, Mrs B.O. Osunsanmi.
Earlier, the Police Prosecutor, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, told the court that the accused committed the offence on April 26 on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
He said the accused stole a truck valued at N5 million and other goods also valued at N5 million, property of Mr Rotanna Ezerioha, the complainant.
According to the prosecutor, the complainant bought some iron rods at a company and loaded the goods into the truck for the accused to deliver at his shop.
Instead, the accused absconded with the complainant’s vehicle and the iron rods, Ayorinde said.
He said the accused was later traced to Ogbomoso in Oyo State and was arrested when he was about to sell both the truck and the goods.
The offence contravened Section 287 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the section prescribes seven years jail term for offenders.
The magistrate reserved judgment until May 14. (NAN)