The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a 56-year-old man, Remi Akinlami, for allegedly stealing a car worth N3.2m, property of Festus Ojabor, in the Egbeda area of the state.

The defendant was arraigned before Magistrate O.A Salawu on July 10, 2023, in the Yaba Magistrates’ Court 4, on two counts of pretence and stealing.

The prosecutor, Godwin Oriabure, said the defendant committed the offence in 2010, at Gowon Estate, in the Egbeda area of the state; adding that he acquired an unregistered car from the complainant under the pretence to help him sell it but, did not remit the money to the owner of the car, after selling it without the original documents.

He said the offences contravened Section 280 (1) and are punishable under Sections 314, and 287 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.

The charge read in part, “That you, Remi Akinlami, sometime in 2010, at No A1, 11 Road, Gowon Estate Egbeda, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did obtain one Toyota Corolla 2007 Model grey colour (unregistered), valued at N3.2m, property of one Festus Ojabor, with the pretence of helping him to sell the car, a representation you knew to be false, and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 314 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.

“That you, Remi Akinlami, on the same date, time and place, at the aforementioned Magisterial District, did steal one Toyota Corolla, a 2007 Model grey colour (unregistered), valued at N3.2m, property of one Festus Ojebor and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 280(1) and punishable under Section 287 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.”

Meanwhile, Akinlami pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him.

The magistrate granted him bail in the sum of N500,000, with two sureties in like sum.

She also adjourned the case till September 21, 2023, for mention.

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