The Police on Tuesday arraigned a commercial motorcyclist, Shuaibu Abdulkareem, 23, before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged theft of a cell phone.
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The defendant of no fixed address, is standing trial on a charge of stealing.
The Prosecutor, Insp. Bankole Olasunkanmi, told the court that the Abdulkareem committed the offence on Aug. 5 at about 9.00 a.m., near Ado Grammar School, Odo-Ado in Ado-Ekiti.
He alleged that the defendant stole one Infinix Hot 8 phone, valued at N36, 000, belonging to one Oyinlade Opeyemi.
Olasunkanmi said that the defendant, an okada rider, carried Opeyemi to Odo Ado to fill a gas cylinder and stole the phone thereafter.
The prosecutor said that immediately the complainant alighted from the motorcycle, the defendant zoomed off with the phone.
According to him, the offence contravenes Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Defence Counsel, Mr Seun Oyebanji, pleaded with court to grant his client bail, pledging that he would not jump bail.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Adedayo Oyebanji, granted the Abdulkareem bail in the sum of N50, 000 with one surety in like sum.
Oyebanji said that the surety must provide a landed property or a civil servant on grade level 5, to stand surety for him.
He adjourned the case until Sept. 20 for hearing.
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