Two young men, Mohammed Sule and Lawani Idris, have been sentenced to three months imprisonment for stealing and robbing a staff of Access Bank Plc, Vivian Ufori, of her belongings valued at N160,000.
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Sule 35 and Idris, 28, who were arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing prefered against them by the police before Magistrate (Mrs.) Dan Oni.
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The two defendants were said to have committed the crime on April 8, 2013, at about 5:30a.m. at Fadeyi Street in Ikeja area of Lagos.
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The police prosecutor, Inspector Edet Okoi, told the court that the alleged offence was committed in the early hours of that fateful day at Fadayi Street in Ikeja at about.
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He claimed that the defendants stole the following belongings - a hang bag, containing one Access Bank ID card, Access Bank Automated Teller Machine card, ATM, a pair of shoe, a Bible, house and office keys and some cash valued at N160,000, properties of one Vivian Ofori, Okoi claimed that the defendants were fond of robbing people of their valuables.
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According to Okoi, the offence committed is punishable under section 409,285 (1) of the criminal laws No 11 Vol 44 laws of Lagos state of Nigeria 2011.
Robbery is never a silly profession any human being should consider. Now they are reaping the fruit of their own labour.