A young man has been arrested after stealing a lady’s iPhone after inviting her to his hotel room.
The man who was identified as Usman Tijani was detained after his female acquaintance raised alarm over her missing phone.
On Monday, April 3rd, in a Kado Grade 1 Area Court in the Federal Capital Territory, the authorities presented the suspect for arraignment.
The complainant, Fatima Mohammed of Kano State, reported the incident at the Wuse divisional police offices, Zone 3, on March 24, according to the prosecution’s Stanley Nwafoaku.
Nwafoaku claimed that while they were together, the defendant requested the complainant to stay at the Rodzee hotel in Wuse Zone 5 and she left to take a shower.
He claimed that while Mohammed was using the restroom, Tijani took her iPhone and left the hotel. She found her phone gone when she came out of the bathroom. She alerted security staff right away, and they swiftly arrested the defendant.
However, Tijani of the village of Garki entered a not-guilty plea to the allegation of theft. Charity Nwosu, the defendant’s defense attorney, requested bail for the accused in the most lenient conditions possible.
Nwosu submitted the application, citing sections 158 of the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015 and sections 36 of the 1999 constitution, and he pledged that the defendants wouldn’t skip bond if it was approved.
The defendant was granted bail in the amount of N200,000 (two hundred thousand naira) and one surety in the same amount by Justice Muhammed Wakili. The hearing was postponed until May 23 by the judge.