Robber arrested over N85m, Blackberry phone theft

A Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, has remanded
33-year-old Oyebuchi Okadigbo in Kirikiri prison
for allegedly stealing N85 million which belonged
to Alhaji Muhammed Adios.
The presiding judge, Justice Sedotan Ogunsanya,
ordered that the defendant be remanded in the
prison pending his trial on March 24.
Okadigbo was arraigned on a two-count charge
bordering on conspiracy to commit armed robbery,
but he however pleaded not guilty.
According to the lead counsel from the office of
Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Mrs
Mosunmola Balogun, the defendant and others at
large the defendant and his accomplices robbed
the victim (Adios) in his residence, along Lagos
Badagry expressway on November 14, 2014.
The prosecutor added that the defendant and his
cohorts also robbed the victim of his Blackberry
Curve 5, clothes and ECOWAS international
passport and the N85 million cash.