The police in Lagos Tuesday arraigned a 32-year-old carpenter, who allegedly entered his Chinese employers’ rooms and stole different currencies.
Efuntade Ajibola, the suspect appeared before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court on a three-count charge of stealing $5,000, N1 million, $470 and 300 Renminbi (Chinese currency).
The prosecutor, Insp. Moses Uamdemevbo had submitted that Ajibola stole the money from Messrs Guan Shuai and Will Zhao on November 3, 2017, and November 13, 2017 at CCECC premises at 46, Nnamdi Azikiwe Road, Nigerian Railway compound, Ebute Meta, Lagos.
Uamdemevbo said the accused broke into the foreigners’ apartment to steal the money.
“The complainants, who always kept money in their rooms because they paid workers on daily basis, began to realise that some notes were always missing.
“They decided to install a CCTV camera in their house and found out that it was the accused, who used a duplicate key to open the rooms and steal money,” he said.
He said that the offences contravened Sections 280(1) and 308(1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The Magistrate, Mrs Bola Folarin-Williams, granted the accused bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.
She adjourned the case to March 3 for substantive trial.
