
Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of a Special Offences Court in Ikeja, has ordered the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba to arrest three men, Tunde Yusuf, Adebayo Dayo and Michael Obisiji and produced them before the court.
The judge gave the order following their absence to take their plea in a charge filed against them by IGP through the Force CID, Alagbon, Lagos.
The police counsel, Morufu Animashaun had in a suit marked LD/13338C/2020, alleged that the defendant stole 245 cartons of cosmetics valued at N19,214,120.00.
The police said, defendants and others now at large, sometime in March, 2020 at Apapa Tin-Can Port, stole 245 cartons of cosmetics valued at N19, 214,120.00 property of one Remiginus Okafor.
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However, at the resumed hearing, the prosecution counsel, Animashaun told the court that the whereabouts of the defendant is unknown.
Animashaun told the court that, “we have not been able to get the defendant. The investigation team has been transferred out of jurisdiction due to insecurity in the country.”
The prosecution had filed two counts, bordering on conspiracy to commit felony to wit: stealing and stealing against the trio, Yusuf, Dayo and Obisiji.
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He said their offence contravened section 287(5) and 411 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015.
However, due to the absence of the defendants to take their plea, Justice Abike-Fadipe directed the police to arrest the defendant before the next adjourn date.
She subsequently adjourned the matter to February 8, 2023 for their arraignment