A security guard attached to a Model College in Ojo, Lagos State and two others were on Friday arraigned in an Ojo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing five mattresses.
The defendants — Godstime Ajayi, 37; Salisu Yahayah, 25; and Garba Samaila, 40 — are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing before Magistrate A. A. Adesanya.
The first defendant pleaded not guilty, while the second and third could not state their pleas because of language barrier.
Adesanya admitted the first defendant to N150,000 bail with two sureties in like sum.
He said one of the sureties must be a relative and the other a clergyman.
The magistrate, however, remanded the second and third defendants in police custody pending when the court would provide an interpreter.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Inspector Uche Simeon, had told the court that the defendants committed the offences on December 25 at the secondary school’s hostel in Lagos.
He said Ajayi, the security guard employed to guard the school, stole five mattresses and sold them to Yahayah and Samaila.
Simeon said the defendants were caught in possession of the mattresses by another security guard.
He said the offences contravened sections 287 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The Magistrate adjourned the case until January 23, for hearing.
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