An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, August 16, remanded one Mubarak Kajola (28 years) for allegedly breaking into a cemetery and stealing iron rods used to cover a corpse in a grave, valued at N1.1 million.
Kajola was arraigned on a three-count charge bordering on trespass, stealing, and possessing firearms, although he pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Inspector Funmi Akinleye, had told the court that the defendant ”illegally, improperly and indecently” broke into the Ayobo Cemetery and interfered with dead bodies.
Akinleye said that on August 11, the defendant broke the slabs used in covering dead bodies and stole the iron rods belonging to Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Area valued at N1.1 million.
She told the court that the defendant was armed with a plastic mock rifle.
Akinleye said that the offences contravened sections 165(b), 280(1), 287, 312 and 312 (a)(b).
The Magistrate, Mrs Oyenike Fajana, ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Center and adjourned the case until August 17 for facts and sentencing.
