By: Adeosun Ewatomi
Two security guards, Kazeem Adewale, 49 and Nasiru Orikeye, have landed in trouble in Lagos State for allegedly sleeping on duty while thieves burgled a shop and carted away 12 bags of rice worth over N1m and escaped.
Crime watch reports that the security men have been arrested and charged for conspiracy and stealing of the items.
The incident happened at Odubanjo Street, Second Carwash, Governor’s Road, Ikotun, where the landlords association employed them as security guards. They were said to have neglected their job before thieves burgled the shop and stole the items.
According to the Police, they were employed as security guards and on 2nd December, 2024, they abandoned their job and went to sleep leaving the street gate open.
However, while they were asleep, thieves burgled the shop, stole the the bags of rice and escaped without any trace while they were supposed to be active on duty.
The landlords association discovered what happened, asked to know where they were when the thieves burgled the shop because they claimed they were on duty.
The matter was reported to the Police at Ikotun Division. The security men were arrested and detained for conspiring to steal the items because they were supposed to be on duty.
During interrogation, they denied knowing about it and confessed that they actually went to sleep and were not on duty and so did not know when the thieves burgled the shop and stole the items.
The Police found them culpable and charged them before the Ejigbo Magistrate Court for the alleged offence.
The charge read:
“That you, Kazeem Adewale “m” and Nasiru Orikeye “m”, on 2nd December, 2024, between 12:00am to 05:00am, at No. 35, Odubanjo Street, Second Carwash, Governor’s Road, Ikotun, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire together to commit a felony to wit; stealing and thereby committed an offence Contrary to and Punishable under Section 168(d) of the Lagos State Criminal Law, 2015.”
COUNT II:”That you, Kazeem Adewale “m” and Nasiru Orikeye “m”, on the same date, time and place, in the aforesaid Magisterial District, did abandon your job as security guards and left the street gate open that is supposed to be closed by 12:00am and open by 05:30am as instructed by the landlords association, and thereby allowed unknown thieves to burgle a shop of one “OKOLIE MARIAM” “F” and took away her twelve (12) bags of Rice valued the sum of One Million Twenty Thousand Naira and thereby committed an offence Contrary and Punishable under Section 410, of the Lagos State Criminal Law, 2015.”
They pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Inspector Simeon Njue, then asked the Court to give a date for hearing since they pleaded not guilty to enable the Police to prove that they actually committed the alleged offence.
The Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. A.K. Dosumu-Uthman, granted them bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum, who must show evidence of means of livelihood and tax payment while addresses will be verified by the Court.
The matter was adjourned till 13th January, 2024, for mention while the defendants were remanded in custody at the correctional center at Kirikiri town, Lagos, pending when they will perfect their bail conditions.
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