AN Ikeja Magistrates’ Court yesterday granted a landlady, Bature Anumiuyu, N100,000 bail for allegedly stealing bags of foodstuff worth N297,000 from a tenant’s shop.
Magistrate J.A. Adegun also ordered the accused to provide a surety in the like sum.
He adjourned the case till January 17.
The 33-year-old woman is facing a three-count charge of burglary, stealing and breach of the peace.
Earlier, Prosecuting Sergeant Babaji Ishaku, said the accused committed the offence at Aremu Lawal Street, New Oko-Oba, Agege, Lagos around 2.30pm last December 5.
He alleged that the landlady broke into the shop of the complainant, Mr John Omeoha, one of her tenants.
Ishaku said: “The accused made away with 15 bags of rice, four bags of beans and three bags of garri, all valued at N297,000.
“The complainant said he locked up his shop for sometime because his wife had just been delivered of a baby. He said that his landlady had asked him to pack out of the shop that she wanted to make use of it. The complainant pleaded with her to give him more time to secure an alternative place. But on the said date when the complainant passed by the shop, he found out that his shop had been burgled and some goods carted away.”
The accused pleaded not guilty.
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