5th April, 2022
By Paul Iyoghojie
The Police at the Ikoyi Division, Lagos have arrested a 29-year old Togolese cook, Daniel Jackson and charged him before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing a diamond ring and gold necklace valued at €1,900 equivalent to N1,197,000 belonging to his employer, Egbujor Stella Uzoamaka and escaped.
Police alleged that nemesis, however, caught up with Jackson when the complainant reported the incident to the Divisional Police Officer, DPO in charge Ikoyi Division, CSP Tijani Mustapha N’abba that she left her cook at home on trust for work and that before she returned back, her cook broke into her apartment to steal her diamond ring and gold necklace all valued €1,900 and escaped.
The Police further alleged that following the report, the DPO directed his crack team to fish out the defendant anywhere he might be hiding.
The Police team, after days of intelligence gathering, tracked the defendant to a hideout in Lagos and arrested him.
Jackson was charged before the Igbosere Magistrate’s Court sitting at the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing.
Police Prosecuting Counsel, Hafsat Ajibode told the Court that the defendant, a steward and Togolese committed the offence at Glover Road, Ikoyi, Lagos where he resides with his employer.
Ajibode informed the court that the complainant left the defendant at home on trust as her cook to transact her business but that before she returned back, the defendant broke into her apartment to steal her jewellery and escaped before he was arrested.
She said the offences the defendant committed were punishable under sessions 411 and 287(7) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and the Magistrate, Mr B.A Shonuga granted him N300,000 bail with two sureties in like sum.
Shonuga adjourned the case till 18 April, 2022 for mention and ordered that the defendant be kept at the Ikoyi Correctional Facility till he perfected the bail conditions.