A 36-year-old house caretaker, Emmanuel Chukwu, has landed in trouble for allegedly stealing N3,500 from the savings box of his tenant.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that he has been arrested and charged before the Lugbe Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, for the alleged offence.
The Police charged the suspect, Chukwu, of Wuse Zone 4, Abuja, for breaking into the house and stealing, which attracts several years of imprisonment.
The Prosecution Counsel, Mrs. Charity Nwosu, told the Court that the complainanant, Mr. Bala Mohammed, of the same address, reported the matter at the Wuse Zone 4 Police Station on 29th February, 2024.
Mrs. Nwosu said that the complainant claimed that the defendant criminally broke the iron burglary to his shop, entered without his consent, smartly took the complainant’s savings box and made away with N3, 500 kept inside it.
The prosecutor said that during Police investigation, the defendant could not give a satisfactory account of his actions and the alleged offences contravened Sections 346 and 287 of the Penal Code.
However, the defendant pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Nwosu, asked the Court to give a date to open the case against the defendant to enable the Police to prove that he actually committed the alleged offence.
The Presiding Judge, Aliyu Kagarko, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum, who must show evidence of means of livelihood and must reside within the Court’s jurisdiction and produce reliable means of identification.
The matter was adjourned till 5th April, 2024, for hearing while the defendant was remanded in custody at the correctional centre pending when he will perfect his bail conditions.