Court Sends Three Men To Prison For Allegedly Stealing Seven Refrigerators

An Ikeja, Lagos State  Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered that three men who allegedly stole seven refrigerators worth N1.4 million at gunpoint be remanded in a correctional centre.

 

The police charged Ezekiel Egbe, Chigbo Nweke and Chikodi Okaja with conspiracy and armed robbery.

 

Magistrate S.K. Ariyo, who did not take the plea of the suspects, ordered that they should be kept in Kirikiri Correctional Centre, Lagos.

 

Ariyo ordered the police to return the case file to the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.

 

 

 

The Magistrate adjourned the case until August 3 for mention.

 

 

 

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Inspector Christopher John, told the court that the suspects committed the offence with others at large on April 20 about 9:30pm at Toyota Bus Stop, Oshodi-Mile 2 Expressway, Lagos.

 

John said the suspects, armed with sticks, cutlasses, gun and other offensive weapons, robbed Cyril Chukwu of seven refrigerators worth N1.4 million, property of SIMS Nigeria Limited.

 

The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 297(1)(2)(a)(b) and 299 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015,