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The
police in Osun State have arraigned Mrs. Bolanle Odedeji and her
22-year-old son, Olalekan Odedeji, before a Magistrate’s Court, sitting
in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, for allegedly stealing phones and
camera.
A teenager, 19-year-old Olaoye
Oluwamuyiwa, who was said to have bought the alleged stolen camera from
the accused persons, was also arraigned before Magistrate Olusola Aluko.
Odedeji was said to have broken into the
apartment of one Bolatito Adebisi and allegedly stole a Blackberry
phone, a T-Mobile phone and a Canon camera.
According to the charge sheet sighted by
our correspondent in Osogbo on Thursday, the police prosecutor, Mereti
Wilson, told the court that the accused person stole the items whereas
his mother received the stolen goods.
The accused persons were arraigned before the court on six counts of burglary, conspiracy to steal and stealing.
The charges sheet in part, “That you,
Odedeji Olalekan, and others now at large, on or before July 26, 2014,
at about 11.59pm, behind Zazo Hotel area, Osogbo, in the Osogbo
Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony
wit; burgling and stealing, and thereby committed an offence contrary to
and punishable under Section 516 of Criminal Code, Cap 34 Vol. 11, Law
of Osun State of Nigeria, 2003. .
“That you Olaoye Oluwamuyiwa sometimes in
the month of August 2014, behind Zazo Hotel, Osogbo, in the
aforementioned magisterial district, did receive a Canon camera valued
N22,000 from one Odedeji Olalekan, knowing same to have been stolen
property of one Adebisi Alake, and thereby committed an offence contrary
to and punishable under Section 427 of Criminal Code, Cap 34, Vol. 11
Law of Osun State of Nigeria, 2003.”
The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them.
The defence counsel, Mr. Abiodun Raji, Mrs. Okobe Negite and M.O. Nagode applied for bail of their clients.
Aluko granted the bail in sum of N50,000 with two sureties to each accused person.
He adjourned the hearing till October 22, 2014.
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