A 28-year-old petrol attendant, Dosu Sunday, was on Wednesday arraigned before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over alleged stealing of N3,531,300.
The defendant, of no fixed residential address, is facing a two-count charge of stealing and forgery.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Prosecutor, Insp Ayodele Adeosun, told the court that the defendant committed the offences sometime in May and June at NNPC filling station, Oloko, on Seme Badagry expressway, Lagos.
Adosun said that the defendant stole the sum of N3, 531,300, property of one Alhaji Ganiu Adelani, the complainant.
“The defendant also forged the filling station’s POS receipt for the same amount, knowing that it was fake.
“Having known that the management was aware of this, he ran away from the station but he was caught at a jetty in Iya-Afin community, trying to catch a boat.
“He was handed over to the police for prosecution,” he said.
The offences, the prosecutor said, contravened Sections 287 and 363 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Patrick Adekomaiya, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N2 million, with two sureties in like sum.
Adekomaiya said that the sureties must be gainfully employed and with evidence of tax clearance from the Lagos State Government.
He, thereafter, adjourned the case till Sept.18 for mention.
(NAN)
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