Crime: Police Trying To Frame Me – Suspect

 

Yusuf Oketola

A 50-year-old suspect, Umaru Mohammed, on Wednesday told an Osogbo Magistrate Court that the Police were trying to frame him on the alleged offence levelled against him.

Umaru, a night guard at Easy Garden in Ikirun, the headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government of State of Osun, was accused of stealing four cows, valued sum of N1.1 million, belonging to one Oseni Abdulrahman. 

The accused person was arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. 

But Umaru told the court that he is a night guard at Easy Garden in Ikirun and left his work place on Monday, October 11, 2021 for a medical checkup before he was arrested.

He said his employer was yet to be aware of his arrest, stressing that he is not the one that committed the alleged offence. 

The complainant, Oseni Abdulrahman, told the court that the accused person is a friend to one of his employees, Abu Mohammed, also a night guard.

The plaintiff noted that he had warned the duo to stop seeing each other, as he noticed that they were conspiring to do bad things.

He told the court that when he could not find some of his cows, he observed that his employee, Abu Mohammed, hadalso run away, he did not hesitate to arrest Umaru, his friend.

However, the plea of the accused person was not taken by the court because, as the second defendant on the charge sheet, Abu Mohammed, was still at large.

The presiding magistrate, A.A. Adebayo,ordered that the defendant be remanded in Ilesa Correctional Centre. 

The case was transferred to the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ikirun, for mention on October 18, 2021.