3 Jumia staff arraigned for allegedly stealing cellphones valued N1.5m

Three factory workers with Jumia Nigeria Limited were arraigned on Monday before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing the company’s cellular phones valued at N1.5 million.

Justice Alson, 42; Daniel Iheka, 23, and Hammed Salami, 25, are being charged with conspiracy and stealing.

The prosecutor, ASP Raji Akeem, told the court that Alson, Iheka, and Salami committed the offences between December 2023 and January 2024 at the Jumia office in Surulere Road, Ikeja.

Akeem said that the defendants stole three units of a Redmi Note 12C phone valued at N781,920, a Tecno phone valued at N166,210, and a Samsung A75 phone valued at N570,000.

He said that the total value of the items stolen by the defendants amounted to N1.5 million, belonging to their employee, Jumia Nigeria Limited.

The prosecutor said that the defendants were always on duty whenever there were cases of missing phones.

”So the security guards became very watchful until they were finally caught,” he said.

Akeem said that the offences contravened Sections 287 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Bola Osunsanmi, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N300,000 each, with two sureties in the same sum.

Osunsanmi adjourned the case until April 17 for mention.