The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a 29-year-old cashier, identified as Olasumbo Sammie, over allegations that she stole proceeds of shaving sticks and blades worth N1.8m belonging to her employer.
Sammie, was brought a Magistrates’ Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos State on two counts of stealing on Monday.
She was reportedly employed as a cashier in that company in 2022.
Sammie was alleged to have sold the shaving sticks and blades but failed to remit the proceeds to her employer.
According to the prosecutor, Thomas Nurudeen, the offences were contrary to Section 280 and punishable under Sections 411 and 287(7) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.
The charge read, “That Olasumbo Sammie from February 1, 2022, till February 2023 at No 74 Docemo Street, Idumota Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District did commit felony to wit: stealing and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 411 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.”
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Magistrate P. E. Nwaka granted Sammie bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.
Nwaka adjourned the case till July 5, 2023.
In another news, Okomu Oil Palm Plc says it has averted a possible gas explosion after a tanker carrying Liquefied Natural Gas lost control and fell along the Benin-Akure Expressway in the Uhiere community, the Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.
The firm, in a statement on Monday, said its fire service department brought the situation under control.
It said the intervention in Uhiere came barely six months after it averted what could have been a major fire disaster in the Owan community in the same local government area.
The statement partly read, “The company has once again come to the rescue of another community by averting a possible gas explosion in Uhiere community along the Benin-Akure Expressway in the Ovia North East Local Government Area.
“The incident happened when the driver of a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas lost control of his truck and in the process fell along the ever-busy Benin-Akure Expressway.”