Celebrity
phone thief, Seun Egbegbe has gotten into more trouble as the court in
Lagos state sent him to Kirikiri prison for stealing iPhones.
Nigerian producer turned thief, Seun Egbegbe has been remanded in
prison custody by a Lagos State Magistrate Court sitting in Ikeja,
yesterday.
The judge remanded in Kirikiri Prisons for alleged stealing 10
iPhones from a phone shop in Ikeja area of Lagos before he was caught
and mobbed. Seun Egbegbe is the former boyfriend of actress and social
media celebrity, Toyin Aimakhu.
The police had yesterday arraigned Seun before Magistrate Y. O.
Aje-Afunwa, on one count charge of theft. He pleaded not guilty when the
charge was read to him.
Narrating how the incident happened, the police prosecutor told the
court that the incident occurred while the sales girl was trying to
calculate the items Seun requested for, but that he allegedly ran out of
the shop with the phones and tried to board a waiting vehicle. The
sales girl allegedly raised the alarm, which attracted other traders in
the market.
Luck ran out on him as he was caught and beaten to a pulp before
the police intervened and rescued him. The presiding magistrate,
Aje-Afunwa, granted him N1 million bail and two sureties in like sum.
He ordered Seun to be remanded in Kirikiri pending when he would
fulfil his bail conditions. However, something astonishing happened in
court after Seun’s supporters threatened to beat up journalists if they
took the accused pictures.
Vanguard reported that it took the intervention of police and court
orderlies, who sent the rowdy mob out of the court premises, to save
the situation. While journalists waited to take Seun’s picture, his
family members colluded with prison warders to sneak him out of the
court premises through the back door into a waiting prison vehicle.
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