A magistrates’ court in Ilorin, Kwara State, has remanded one Abdulazeez Abdulkadir for phone theft.
The prosecutor, Gbenga Ayeni, told the court that the suspect was arrested by the security personnel of the University of Ilorin (Unilorin) after he trespassed into the facility as he was neither a student nor a staff member of the institution.
The charge sheet presented by Ayeni reads in part: “You were met in the Faculty of Law’s mosque pretending to be observing prayer in the course of which you forcefully opened a bag belonging to one Yusuf Toyeeb Olanrewaju, a law student, and stole a Redmi 9 phone valued at N80,000.
“In 2021, you were brought to the station for similar offences and you were warned and you promised to desist from repeating such an act.
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“Preliminary investigation and your confession revealed that you are a habitual criminal in the act of phone theft.”
The Magistrate, Gbadeyan Kamson, remanded the suspect and adjourned to February 14.