By Felix Kuyinu
A Yaba Magistrates’ Court has kept in remand one Micheal Adams for failure to pay a bartender the drinks consumed.
Adams was arraigned by the police having committed the act at a bar in Shomolu area of Lagos.
The Prosecutor, Haruna Magaji told the court that Adams alongside his friends who have since the incident been at large entered the VIP section of the bar and ordered for drinks amounting to N130,000 but could not pay up the bill.
The defendant, in his statement, said it was one of his friends who asked him to order the drinks to be paid for after drinking. The friends cunningly found their way out of the bar premises leaving him to foot the bill, hence getting arrested as he was unable to pay.
Magaji told the court that they committed the crime on December 2, 2023 adding that the offence is punishable under Section 314 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria.
The charge read, “That you, Michael Adams, on December 2, 2023, around 12.30 am at No 47, Oluwadare Street, Somolu, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did obtain two Martel drinks valued at N90,000; Jameson valued at N10,000; five Powerhorse valued at N7,000; Hollandia yoghurt valued at N2,000; a bottled water valued at N2,600, and two Trophy Stout valued at N2,400, the total value of the drinks obtained from one Naomi, the bartender, is N113,000, only in pretence to pay him the money later and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 314 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2015.”
Adams was arraigned by the police before Magistrate Olubukola Adefope on one count bordering on obtaining and drinking alcohol and others and failing to pay up the bill.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Magistrate Adefope, granted him bail in the sum of N500.000 with two responsible sureties in like sum.
She adjourned the case till January 17, 2024 for mention.
