Taiwo, aged 20, and of no fixed address, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing.
The prosecutor, Livingnus Okeke, said the defendant and others at large, committed the offence on April 20, 2015 at UBA Roundabout at Marina on the Lagos Island.
He said Taiwo stole N12,000 and the phone, totaling N18,000, property of Vera Denedo.
Okeke said the defendant was later apprehended, few days later after the woman identified him and raised the alarm.
He pleaded not guilty.
According to the prosecutor, the offence is punishable under Sections 409 and 285 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2011.
Magistrate L. A Owolabi admitted him to bail for N10,000 with one surety in like sum.
He adjourned the matter till May 25.
CDHR accuses Ogun police of arbitrary arrests, extortion
THE Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) Ogun State branch, has accused the police command of extortion, torture, unlawful arrests and gross violation of people’s rights.
In a statement on Wednesday in Abeokuta, the state capital, the CDHR said its investigation revealed that the command was becoming “a high cash centre”.
The statement jointly signed by Comrades Folarin Olayinka and Akiyode Okikiolu, chairman and secretary respectively, also alleged gross violation of the people’s rights.
Olayinka described as “devastating and retrogressive a situation when between N50,000, and N200,000 is forcefully demanded for bail, forceful extortion through threat and long-term detention in police cells.
“The growing rate of corruption among the police officers in Ogun State is very alarming and may lead to a face-off very soon among the CDHR, Coalition of Civil Societies and the police command,” he said.
According to the CDHR, police stations are fast becoming centres for dispensing justice, a supposed responsibility of the judiciary.
The CDHR listed major Divisional Police stations, particularly those in the state capital, as culpable in the sleeze.
“The police in Ogun State are betraying the people’s trust and rendering the state unsafe, a situation where people live in fear and consistent infringement on their fundamental human rights,” the group said.
Reacting, the command’s spokesman, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent, said there was no iota of truth in the accusation.
His words: “We, as a police formation, are doing our best to ensure adequate policing to individuals and corporate bodies.”
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