By our Reporter
A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos has arraigned one Victor Abayomi, a chef to the former Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday for alleged theft of properties amounting to millions of Naira at the former’s Ikoyi house.
According to the charge, Abayomi and few others said to have dissapeared allegedly committed the offences at the residence of the former governor Ambode.
While presiding over the matter,
Chief Magistrate, Peter Nwaka, ordered that the accused be remanded for 30 days in Ikoyi Correctional Centre.
Chief Magistrate Nwaka, then adjourned the case to 8 of April , 2024 for further hearing, which would paved the way for investigation and presentation of facts.
Chef Abayomi whose house address was not made available, is standing trial on a two-court allegation bothering on conspiracy and theft.
Similarly, the legal officer, Mr. Joshua Babalola, an employee of the Department of State Services, DSS, testified before the court that the defendant, Abayomi and other accessories still at large carried out the criminal act at the residence of the Mr. Ambode.
Babalola alleged that the accused made away with valuable belongings worth millions of naira from his employer’s home at Ikoyi.
Babalola stated that Abayomi absconded to Old Garage, Molorundo Local Government Area, Osun State, where he was apprehended by the former governor’s SSS officers on March 7, 2024.
The offences, according to Babalola ran contrary to the provisions of sections 287 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
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