Woman remanded in prison for N1.8m soft drink theft in Osun

From Lateef Dada, Osogbo

A Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, yesterday, remanded a 30-year-old woman, Akinbode Christiana, in Ilesa correctional centre for allegedly stealing soft drink that is worth N1.8 million.

The police had accused Christiana who was said to be a shop attendant at Adisdek Drinks and Wine, of conspiring with others, now at large, to steal soft drinks that worth N1.8 million.

According to the prosecutor, ASP Akintunde Jacob, the defendant, with others at large, on October 1, 2024 at Adisdek Drinks and Wine, Osogbo, did forged a receipt of Adisdek drinks and deport to claim goods worth N1,874,900 and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 467 (0) of the Criminal Code cap 34 Vol. Laws of Osun State Nigeria 2002.

When the defendant was asked to answer her plea to the three count charges of conspiracy, forgery and stealing, leveled against her by the police, she kept mute and efforts by the magistrate and others to let her answer the plea proved futile as she kept on looking at them.

Her counsel, Olatunbosun Oladipupo, told the court that he had tutored her, and expressed surprise over the action of the defendant, praying the court to grant adjournment for her re-arraignment.

Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara, thereby ordered that the defendant be remanded in correctional centre and adjourned the case to 21st October, for re-arraignment.