A jobless man, Jubril Aja has been remanded at the Kirikiri
Prisons in Lagos State by an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for stealing water taps
valued at N10,000. The Magistrate, Mr. A. Adesanya, remanded Aja, 28, in prison
after he admitted stealing the taps from a Mosque.
Aja, a resident of Agege area of Lagos, was arraigned on a
one-count charge of stealing. The prosecutor, Insp. George Nwosu, told the
court that that the accused stole the taps on September 11 from the Allahu
Walidu Central Mosque at Sunday Farm Estate, Dopemu, Agege, Lagos.
Nwosu said, “The accused came into the mosque with the
pretext to pray. He sat at the water side pretending to do ablution and removed
two installed tap heads, packaged them inside his bag and took to his heels.
“When a worshiper got to the tap to wash before entering the
mosque for prayer, he discovered that the tap heads had been removed again and
he raised alarm. The accused was given a hot chase and apprehended. When he was
searched, those stolen items were recovered.”
Nwosu told the court that the accused confessed that he was
responsible for the theft of all the taps missing from the mosque.
The offence, Nwosu said, contravened Section 285 of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
Section 285 provides that if convicted of the offence, the
accused is liable to three years imprisonment.
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