2 Company Security Guards Docked For  Not Preventing Thieves From Stealing Property

AISHA ABUBAKAR 

Two company security guards, Joro Ishaku, 30 and Akosu Fidelis, 35, have been arrested and charged over their inability to prevent thieves, who stole the company’s property in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. 

 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened on 17th August, 2023, at Clean Technology Hub, Asokoro, Abuja, where  they were employed as security guards.

 

The matter was reported at the Asokoro Police Station, they were arrested and charged before the Court for negligence that led to the stealing of the company’s property.

 

However, Ishaku and Fidelis, who reside at Jikwoyi, Abuja, and Masaka, Nasarawa State, respectively pleaded not guilty.

The prosecutor, Mr. Stanley Nwaforaku, had earlier told the Court that Mrs. Jaczuelyn Mando, Chief Operation Officer of Clean Technology Hub, Asokoro, Abuja, reported the case at the Asokoro Police Station on 17th Aug. 2023.
Nwaforaku said that the defendants were on duty as security guards at the company when unknown persons gained access to the chief executive officer’s office and stole an 85-inch television set worth N931,500.

The prosecutor said that during Police investigation, a closed circuit television camera footage showed that Ishaku was   standing at a door when the thief gained access to the office.

He added that the  defendants could not give a satisfactory  account of the missing television set.

The prosecutor said that the offences contravened the provisions of Section196 of the Penal Code.

The judge, Mr. Aliyu Kagarko, admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of one million Naira each and a surety each in like sum.

He ordered that the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction.
The matter was adjourned till 1st September, 2023, for hearing.