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| COURT BUILDING |
Proceedings were disturbed at the Ejigbo
Magistrates’ court in Lagos, Nigeria, today Tuesday after a 22-year-old man,
Tomiwa Bolaji, who was charged before the court decided to evade justice by
jumping out of the storey building housing the court.
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| RE-APPREHENDED TOMIWA |
The suspect, charged for allegedly stealing a
generator set worth N25,000 belonging to Moses Udeze, reportedly beat the security
guards at the court and made to escape through the adjoining street but was
apprehended by the court registrar, security guards and police officers present
in court that pursued him and recaptured him. He was thereafter put back into
the dock for the continuation of his trial.
The accused had earlier confessed that he stole
the generator at 11, Adenekan Street where Udeze resides but he was caught by
the residents while trying to escape and eventually arrested by the police at
Ejigbo. He had also entered a plea of guilty before the court to a one count
charge of stealing under the Criminal Code.
The police prosecutor, Mr Ishaku Babaji then went
on to urge the court to grant him a short date to enable him present fact and
sentence which the presiding Magistrate, Mrs J. O. E. Adeyemi granted ordering
that the accused be remanded in the Kirikiri prison till December 14, 2015 for
fact and sentence.
It was while the court officials were preparing
his remand papers that he suddenly got up and jumped off the court building creating
panic and fear among other people in the court before his rearrest.
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