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A 27-year-old welder, Longji was on Friday arraigned in a Life Camp Chief Magistrates’ Court in Abuja for allegedly stealing his employer’s electrical wires worth N17.5 million
The police charged Emmanuel, who lives in Angwan Sarki Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Road Abuja with theft
The Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Charity Nwachukwu, told the court that the complainant, Mr Musa Omale, Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Idu Nairda Warehouse Abuja, reported the matter at the Life Camp Police Station on August 9.
Nwachukwu told the court that on August 9, the complainant discovered that some wires belonging to the company were missing from the warehouse.
She alleged that the defendant dishonestly made away with different types of electrical cables worth N17. 5 million.
The prosecutor said that during police investigation and interrogation, the defendant allegedly made a confessional statement after all the aforementioned cables were recovered from him.
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She informed the court that the defendant, however, could not give a satisfactory account of his actions.
Nwachukwu said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 289 of the panel code.
The Chief Magistrate Musa Jobbo admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of 500,000 and one surety in like sum.
Jobbo ordered that the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and must produce a means of identification.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that he adjourned the case until October 22 for hearing.
