From Lagos State, CEOAFRICA.com received information that one of the employees of Ridge Crest Nigeria Limited has been taken to a Magistrate Court in Ebute Meta for stealing N3, 200,000 belonging to the company.

Adeyemi Omole, 65, was alleged to have committed the crime at the Ajao Estate area of Lagos.

He was accused of using his position as the company’s Sales Representative to divert funds meant for the Company into his own personal account, an act he practiced for a period of nine months before he was caught in June 2013 and sacked.

The charges goes thus,“That you, Omole Sunday Adeyemi, and others at large, between October 2012 and June 30, 2013, at Ajao Estate, Lagos in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire amongst yourselves to commit felony to wit: stealing.

“That you, Omole Sunday Adeyemi and others at large on the same date, time and place in the aforesaid magisterial district, while in the employ of Rudge Crest Nigeria Limited as a sales representative, did dishonestly steal the sum of N3,200,000, property of Ridge Crest Nigeria Limited.”

Adeyemi saied he was not guilty of the charges and was granted bail in the sum of N1m with two sureties each in like sum. The case has been adjourned till September 30.