Bar attendant docked for allegedly stealing his employer’s N300,000

Court of law

A 25-year-old bar attendant Raymond Sunday, was on Thursday arraigned in a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly stealing N300,000 belonging to his employer.

Sunday, a resident of Egypt Road, Barnawa Kaduna is standing trial on a count charge of theft.

The Prosecutor Insp Chidi Leo, said that Sunday, a bar attendant at Freedom Bar located in Barnawa, stole the sum on January 5 from his employer, James Adebiyi.

Leo alleged that the defendant collected N300,000 being proceeds of sales from the bar on December 2022, but failed to remit the money.

He further said that the defendant could not give a satisfactory explanation of what he did with the money.

The prosecutor said that the offense contravened Section 271 of the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017.

Magistrate Ibrahim Emmanuel granted the defendant bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.

He adjourned the case until March 28, for a hearing.