Bank theft trick lands Nigerian drama creator in jail

Eyinatayo Iluyomade, a 19-year-old Lagos-based entertainer, has been captured and charged to court for saying a costly joke.
The play creator was claimed to have dropped a danger note of burglary at First Bank's Sabo branch counter, in Ondo town, on Friday.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Police Command, Funmilayo Odunlami, affirmed the occurrence in a meeting with Premium Times on Monday.
The Ondo State police representative said that the production creator made an over the top expensive and touchy joke that doesn't be sound excused.
She said Mr Iluyomade dropped a note at the bank showing that by 1 p.m. on the said day, his equipped burglary gangsters would come to ransack the bank.
"In the note, he composed we are coming to burglarize, and there's nothing your police can do. It was a frantic move thinking about the uncertainty circumstance in Nigeria and Ondo State."
"I don't have a clue about his stage name. I don't believe he's a known humorist, yet he has been charged to court. He is as of now being investigated, and the result would be unveiled," she said.
Trick turned out badly
Reports say he was indicted by the police on three count-charge verging on intrigue, danger, and way prone to represent a security danger.
Akao Moremi, the police examiner, let the court know that the note represented a security danger to the First Bank's Sabo branch in Ondo town and caused all banks working in Ondo to close down for the entire day.
The litigant argued not blameworthy to the charge against him.
Data likewise says that the preliminary judge, Mosunmola Ikujuni, rejected a bail application forthcoming the fear of different individuals from the 'group of thugs'.
The respondent let the court know that he is a comic and that the note he dropped at the First Bank was a trick, adding that he had been doing this in Lagos until he moved to Ondo town.
He said, "No other pack needed to burglarize the bank as it was written in the note."
Iluyomade begged the court to pardon him and vowed not to play such a trick once more.
Foundation
As of late, Ondo State has been the hotbed of bank burglaries and weapon viciousness.
Around fourteen days prior, shooters killed a cop during a 12 PM assault on a police division in Okuta Elerinla, Akure, Ondo State.
Mrs Odunlami, the police representative in the state, said the assault happened at 1 a.m.
Shooters likewise completed a lethal assault on 5 June at the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo.
Something like 41 people lost their lives in the assault, while a few others were harmed.

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