A Lagos State Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Igbosere has convicted a driver and undergraduate of Lagos State University, Samuel Okari Ogwuche for stealing the sum of about Two Thousand Dollars from his employer in the Lekki area of Lagos.
Magistrate O. M. Daramola who found him guilty upon his guilty plea, stated that the Police has been able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Ogwuche committed the offences.
According to the charge information, Samuel Ogwuche was said to have on the third of April 2022, at Kuboye street Lekki Phase 1 in Eti-Osa magisterial district did steal various Foreign Currencies amounting to $2000, property of his employer and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2015.
The Police was invited to review the case file and tendered several documents after Ogwuche’s guilty plea to prove the allegation
Subsequently, Magistrate Daramola, sentenced Oguche who hailed from Idoma tribe in Benue State, to thirty hours of community service.
