Police Arraign 10 Traders In Court For Allegedly Tampering With Electricity Meters
Reported by Ayooluwa Afolabi
On Tuesday, the police arraigned 10 traders before an Iyaganku Magistrate’s Court for allegedly tampering with post-paid analog meters, property of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC.
The defendants are: Olalere Alabi, 45; Segun Adesokan, 42; Rabiu Ishola, 42; Kabir Sanusi, 45; and Sunday Odunlade, 48.
Others are Ayo Suicide, 40, Femi Odogwu, 48, Funmilayo Ayodele, 34, Oluwakemi Abatan, 42, and Josephine Johnson, 53.
The defendants, including three females, are facing a 12-count charge bordering on conspiracy, tampering with meters, and damaging meters.
Daily Post reports that the prosecuting counsel, ASP Sunday Fatola told the court that the defendants, all traders at Temidire Market, Eleyele, Ibadan, allegedly conspired together to commit the offence at the market.
Fatola said the defendants allegedly tampered with the seals of Standard Postpaid meters in their shops at the market, which is IBEDC's property.
He said that the defendants also defrauded the distribution company of electric energy consumption.
Fatola said the defendants also allegedly damaged standard post-paid meters.
The offences, the prosecution counsel said, contravened Sections 441, 451, and 516 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State, 2000.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Magistrate, Mrs. S. I. Babalola, admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N300,000 each, with one surety each in like sum.
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