A 27-year-old unemployed man, Williams Eromosele, is alleged to have stolen the sum of N9,200 from a Catholic church offertory box in Lagos.
Eromosele, who has been charged before Magistrate A. A. Adetunji of an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on a two-count charge of stealing and breach of peace, was however, granted bail in the sum of N150,000 and two sureties in like sum.
Prosecuting police officer, Corporal Friday Mameh, had told the court that Eromosele committed the offences at about 11:00 a.m. on January 3, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church on Musa Yar’dua Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Mameh said that the defendant committed sacrilege by dipping his hands in the offertory box and stealing the money, saying that by unlawfully entering the church to steal, the defendant had conducted himself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace.
The offences, Mameh added, contravened Sections 166(d) and 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
But Eromosele pleaded not guilty to the charges and Magistrate Adetunji adjourned the case to January 25 for mention. [myad]
