housemaid eacapes with employers N4.6m jewellery..m

News agency of Nigeria reports that For allegedly stealing her
employer's jewellery valued at N4.6m, a 23-year-old housekeeper, Idowu
Adeyeye, was on Monday brought before an Abule-Egba Magistrates'
Court, Lagos.
TheNews Agency of Nigeriareports that the accused, who lives with her
employer at Ijaiye Medium Housing Estate, is facing three counts of
conspiracy, stealing and causing a breach of the peace.
The prosecutor, Inspector Racheal Williams, told the court that the
offences were committed on May 28, 2015, at the employer's residence.
According to her, the accused, with others still at large, stole
jewellery valued at N4.6m, property of the complainant, Mrs. Titilayo
Ogundipe.
"The complainant got home from work to discover that the door to her
room was opened and all her gold jewellery were missing.
"The housekeeper disappeared after the incident, but was later
arrested following a tip-off,'' Williams said.
The offence, she noted, contravened sections 166 (d), 278 and 409 of
the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused pleaded not guilty.
The magistrate, Mrs. Adenike Shonubi, granted the accused bail in the
sum of N2.5m with two sureties in like sum.
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