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AN Apapa Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday remanded in correctional centre a 21-year-old tailor Lateef Kolawole, who allegedly robbed a woman of her bag, pending legal advice.
Kolawole, a resident in Ajegunle is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery.
He pleaded not guilty.
The Chief Magistrate, T.R. Oladele, ordered that the defendant be kept in Kirikiri Correctional Centre, pending legal advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Oladele adjourned the case until April 10.
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Prosecutor, Sergeant Friday Inedu, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on February 24 at Aliwo Junction in Amukoko area of Ajegunle.
He said the defendant and an accomplice, now at large, used cutlasses to rob the complainant, Miss Titilayo Jegede of her valuables.
He said that the defendant stole an IPad valued at N150,000, an IPhone valued at N65,000, an Itel phone valued N4,500 and N3,500 cash, all contained in the bag.
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