A security guard, Abdulrahman Isah, has been arraigned before a Lugbe Grade 1 Area Court for breaking into a property he was hired to keep watch over, and stealing items worth N1.5 million.
Isah is 42-year old, and was accused of stealing the property of his employer, Mrs Maryam Bello, the proprietress of the school which he was hired as the security guard.
The school is in Aco/ Amac Estate Abuja.
Isah, who resides in Gosa village, Abuja, is charged with the two counts of criminal breach and theft, an offence he denied.
The prosecution counsel, Francis Gabriel, said the complainant, Maryam Bello, reported the matter at the Iddo Police Station on September 18.
He said that the complainant employed Isah as security guard in her school located in Aco Estate, Abuja to guard and secure the school property.
The prosecutor alleged that Isah opened some classrooms and stole six plasma television, LG DVD, children car toys, children bicycles, chairs and children rug mat,
Gabriel also alleged that Isah stole generator battery, car batteries, mechanic tools and fan, all valued N1.5 million.
He told the court that Isah was employed to guard and secure the complainant school property, rather he criminally stole and sold them and converted the money to his personal use.
The prosecutor said that during police investigation, the defendant could not give satisfactory account of himself.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 312 and 288 of the Penal Code.
The judge, Mr Abubakar Sadiq, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N1million, with a surety in like sum.
Sadiq ordered that the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction, and adjourned the case until Oct. 7 for hearing. (NAN)
