Gloria Aduwo, a 42-year-old point-of-sale operator, was charged with stealing N543,867 from her company on Wednesday in Lagos’s Ojo Magistrates’ Court.
The police accused Aduwo of stealing.
But she entered a not-guilty plea to the accusation.
The defendant committed the crime in June at the Trade Fair complex in Ojo, according to the prosecution’s attorney, Dr. Simon Uche.
He claimed that the defendant, a member of Mary Okparachuwku’s POS operation crew, had stolen money from the POS.
The defendant took from the complainant N64, 645, N317, 650, as well as a daily payment of N161, 900.
The alleged offence was in violation of Section 287 of the Lagos State Criminal Law from 2015.
The defendant was granted bail in the amount of N200,000 with two sureties in the same amount by Magistrate L.J.k. Layeni.
He set the trial date for December 7th.
