A Badagry Chief Magistrate Court Lagos, on Thursday, ordered the remand of a 25-year-old man, Wale Sunday, for pleading guilty to stealing three bags of 50kg rice valued at N99,000.
The Chief Magistrate, Fadahunsi Adefioye, remanded Sunday after he pleaded guilty to one- count charge of stealing.
Adefioye ordered the defendant to be remanded in Awhajigoh Correctional Centre, Badagry.
The Chief Magistrate adjourned the case to September 26 for facts and sentencing.
Earlier, the prosecutor, ASP Clément Okuoimose, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on September 3 at about 1.00 pm, in front of Agahmathen Palace, Ajara-Agahmathen, Badagry.
Okuoimose said the defendant stole three bags of 50kg foreign rice, which were inside his unregistered Toyota Avalon car, belonging to one Usman Hammed, the complainant.
The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 287 the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
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