Three docked for allegedly stealing equipment worth N14m

By Joy Akinsanya

Three men were on Thursday, dragged before an Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Isabo, over alleged burglary and stealing of equipment valued N14 million.

The defendants are: Simon John,40; Aliyu Sulaimon,35; and Saradeen Muhammed, 22. The trio whose addresses were not provided, are standing trial on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, house breaking, stealing and malicious damage.

They each, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The prosecutor, ASP Lawrence Olu-Balogun, told the court that the defendants committee the offence alongside others now at large, committed the offences between August 2025 and Jan. 25 at Kidney Clinic International located at Idi-Aba in Abeokuta.

Olu-Balogun alleged that the defendants conspired to break into the clinic to steal the equipment, and caused malicious damage to properly.

He alleged that the defendants stole dialysis machine panels valued N10 million and electric armoured cable wires valued at four million naira all totaling N14 million.

Olu-Balogun also alleged that the defendants unlawfully damaged the clinic’s PVC ceiling valued four million naira, property of one Mr. Adebayo Sokunbi, owner of the clinic.

According to him, the defendants were arrested by the community security guard, who got information from the owner, that he saw two persons through his CCTV camera jumping into his clinic.

”The security men immediately went into action and caught the defendants with some of the items stolen” he said

The offence contravenes the provisions of Section Section 390(9), 411, 451 and 516 of the Criminal Law of Ogun State, 2006.

The Magistrate, Mrs. A.K Araba, granted the defendants bail in the sum of one million naira each with one surety each in like sum. She ordered that the surety must be a licensed bondsman registered with the Ogun State Judiciary.
The court ordered that the defendants be remanded at the Oba Correctional Centre, pending perfection of their bail conditions. She adjourned the case until March 12, for hearing