Alleged iphone Theft: Toyin Aimakhu's Ex-Boyfriend, Seun Egbegbe Remanded in Prison
A Lagos
State Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, remanded in Kirikiri
PrisonS, Seun Egbegbe, former boyfriend to actress and social media celebrity,
Toyin Aimakhu, for alleged theft of 10 pieces of iPhones. ADVERTISING inRead
invented by Teads Seun was arraigned before Magistrate Y. O. Aje-Afunwa, on one
count charge of theft slammed against him by the police. Seun, who pleaded not
guilty when the charge was read to him, was alleged to have committed the
offence at the Computer Village, Ikeja, where he requested for the phones.
The
police prosecution 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.
Seun Egbegbe Seun Egbegbe He was eventually 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 was ordered to be
remanded in Kirikiri pending when he would fulfil his bail conditions. A mild
drama, however, played out outside the court as Seun’s supporters threatened to
beat up journalists if they took the accused pictures. 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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