The police penultimate Thursday arraigned a 30-yearold man, Animashaun Waheed, before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court in the Tinubu area of Lagos Island, for attempting to break into an Automatic Teller Machine belonging to Access Bank.
The incident, it was gathered, occurred on Tuesday, September 9, 2016, at Wole Olateru Street, Lekki Phase 1, in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos. Waheed was arraigned on a three-count charge.
The charges read in part, “That you, Animashaun Waheed, on September 9, 2016, at about 2.30am at Wole Olateru Street, Lekki Phase 1, in Eti-Osa LGA, within Lagos Magisterial district, did enter into the Avalon House premises with intent to commit felony, and that you did attempt to rob the Access Bank ATM by making effort to break into the ATM centre with an axe.”
Police said the offences were contrary to and punishable under Sections 306(2), 296(3) and 310 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge. The prosecutor, Corporal Francisca Okere, told the court that the defendant was arrested by a police patrol team in the middle of the night.
