ROTIMI WILMAT OLUBEKO V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

SAMUEL CHUKWUDUMEBI OSEJI, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant, Rotimi Wilmat Olubeko, was arraigned in the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on the 30th June, 2010, on a three count charge which reads as follows:

IN THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT OF NIGERIA

IN THE LAGOS JUDICIAL DIVISION

HOLDEN AT LAGOS

Charge No. FHC/L/57C/2010

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

VS.

ROTIMI WILMAT OLUBEKO 'M' 43 YRS.

COUNT ONE

That you Rotimi Wilmat Olubeko 'm' and others still at large, sometimes in December, 2001 at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit: stealing and thereby committed an offence contrary to S. 516A of the Criminal Code, Cap C38, Vol. 4 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

COUNT TWO

That you Rotimi Wilmat Oluheko 'm' and others still at large, at the same place and time and in the aforesaid Judicial Division did steal a copy of Certificate of Occupancy No. 63/63/1989s plot 19 black 42 Lekki Peninsu…