A 40-year-old man, Ikechukwu Eze was arraigned on Thursday in a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing two bottles of exotic wine from a supermarket, worth N449,000.
The police charged Eze, a resident of Narayi, Kaduna, with conspiracy and theft.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The prosecutor, Insp Chidi Leo told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Jan. 13, at Trinity Supermarket located at Barnawa complex in Kaduna.
Leo alleged that the defendant conspired with another person now at large, who pretended to be a customer, went into the supermarket and stole two bottles of Dom Perignon Brut and Moet and Chandon wine valued N449, 000.
“Eze and his accomplice pretended to be customers, shopping for wine, after they put the wine in a shopping basket they hid somewhere and started stocking the bottles of wine into their trousers.
“A security guard who sighted them on the CCTV monitor, stopped them as they were walking out of the store for a search; they caught the defendant with the bottles of wine while the other escaped,” he said
Leo said that the offence contravened the provisions of Sections 287 and 217 of the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017. READ ALSO:
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Magistrate Ibrahim Emmanuel admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N200, 000 with two sureties in like sum.
Emmanuel ordered that the sureties must swear to an affidavit and show evidence of tax clearance in the last three years.
He also ordered that the sureties must deposit their recent passport photographs with the court.
He adjourned the case until Feb. 12 for hearing.(NAN)
