Attendant Remanded In Prison For Stealing N1.8m Soft Drinks In Osun

• Gbolahan Abolarin, Oyindamola Abanise

A Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo has remanded a 30-year-old woman, Akinbode Christiana, in Ilesa Correctional Centre for allegedly stealing soft drinks.

The police had accused Christiana, who was said to be a shop attendant at Adisdek Drinks and Wine, of conspiring with others, now at large, to steal the drinks worth N1.8 million.

According to the prosecutor, ASP Akintunde Jacob, the defendant, with others at large, on October 1, 2024 at Adisdek Drinks and Wine, Osogbo, forged a receipt of Adisdek drinks and deport to claim goods worth N1,874,900, an offence contrary to and punishable under section 467 (0) of the Criminal Code cap 34 Vol. Laws of Osun State Nigeria 2002.

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When the defendant was asked to answer a plea to the three count charges of conspiracy, forgery and stealing, levelled against her by the police, she kept mute and efforts by the magistrate and others to let her answer proved futile as she kept on looking at them.

Her counsel, Olatunbosun Oladipupo, told the court that he had tutored her before the court session, and expressed surprise over the action of the defendant, praying the court to grant an adjournment for her re-arraignment.

Presiding Magistrate, Dr. Olusegun Ayilara, thereby ordered that the defendant be remanded in Ilesa correctional centre.

The case was adjourned till October 21, 2024 for re-arraignment of the defendant.