An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Tuesday remanded a 30-year-old man, Abiodun Adeyemi, in Agodi prison over alleged armed robbery at a fuel station.
Adeyemi, whose address was not provided, is facing a two-count charge of armed robbery and conspiracy.
The plea of the defendant was not, however, taken by the court. NAN reports that the Chief Magistrate, Mr Olaide Hamzat, ordered the remand of Adeyemi pending receipt of legal advice from the office of the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
He, thereafter, adjourned the case till June 10 for mention. Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Aliu Samad, told the court that Adeyemi and others still at large committed the offence on Feb. 20 at 8.00 p.m.
Samad said that the defendant and his gang members, while armed with guns and other lethal weapons, robbed Samsong Filling Station in Apata, a suburb of Ibadan, of N220,440.
He said that the robbers also dispossessed the owner of the station, Mr Peter Olusegun, of two phones worth N13,500 and N2,000.
The prosecutor said that Adeyemi and his accomplices after the operation at the fuel station also robbed one Mr Adunloju Sunday of his phone valued at N5, 000.
He said the offences committed contravened sections 1 (1) and 6 (a) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act, Cap R11 Laws of Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
