The Police on Tuesday, dragged two security guard before a Life Camp Chief Magistrates’ Court in Abuja, for allegedly stealing a Car and Plasma Television.
The defendants, Amadi Basil, 30; and Arthria Aondona, 36, are standing trial on charges bordering on house breaking, forgery, and stealing.
They each, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The prosecutor, Charity Nwachukwu, told the court that a complainant, one Mrs Mulika Adekoya, of Metropolis Estate in Karsana, Abuja, reported the matter at the Galadima Police Station on Dec 19, 2025.
She alleged that on Dec 18, the first defendant (Basil) who is the complainant’s security guard, conspired with the second defendant (Aondona,) to break into the Adekoya’s compound in her absence.
She alleged that the defendants intentionally entered into the complainant’s house through her window, and took away her plasma television.
The prosecutor alleged that the defendants also took the key to the complainant’s Toyota Camry car from her drawer, and drove the car to Makurdi.
According to the prosecutor, the defendants criminally forged the car documents with the intention to sell off the car without the consent of the owner.
She said that they were caught in the process, adding that they could not give a satisfactory account of their possession of the car, during interrogation by the police.
The prosecution said that all effort to recover the other stolen items have proved abortive.
The offence contravenes the provisions of sections 79, 289, 326 and 354, of the Penal Code.
The Chief Magistrate, Musa Jobbo, granted the defendants bail in the sum of one million naira each, with two sureties each in like sum.
Jobbo ordered that the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction, and should produce reliable means of identification.
The court adjourned the case until March 25, for hearing.
