A 60- year-old security guard, Emmanuel Onakoya, was on Thursday docked in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing a keyboard and plasma television from church.
The defendant who worked as a security man in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Peculiar Parish, Ayobo, Lagos, is charged with conspiracy and theft.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Funmi Akinleye, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on June 19 at the church premises.
Akinleye said that the defendant informed the pastor in charge of the church that some thieves broke into the premises.
The prosecutor said that the defendant said he was not on the church premises when the thieves broke in.
Akinleye said they found the testimony not to be true.
Akinleye said the keyboard and plasma television were worth N450, 000.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 287 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs O.O Fajana, admitted the defendant bail in the sum of N100, 000 with two sureties in like sum.
Fajana adjourned the case until Sept. 20 for mention.
NAN
