Filling station manager in court for stealing N2.4m diesel

A 38-year-old filling station manager, Godwin Timothy, has been arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Kaduna for allegedly stealing Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), otherwise known as diesel, worth N2.4 million.

The manager, a resident of Millennium City Kaduna, is facing a one-count charge of stealing.

The Prosecutor, Inspector Chidi Leo, on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, told the court that the defendant committed the offence at Messenger Filling Station, Kawo in Kaduna between February and May 2025.

Leo told the court that the defendant, who is a manager at the filling station, stole diesel valued at N2.4 million.

According to him, the offence contravened Section 217 of the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017.

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Timothy pleaded not guilty to the offence when the charge was read to him.

Leo, however, applied for an adjournment to enable him to study the case file.

The defence counsel, A. T. Victor, did not oppose the prosecutor’s application, but prayed the court to grant his client bail in the most liberal terms.

Ruling on the application, the Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, admitted the manager to bail in the sum of half a million naira with two sureties in like sum.

Emmanuel said the sureties must swear to an affidavit of means and should reside within the jurisdiction of the court.

The magistrate added that one of the sureties must be a blood relation of the defendant, while the other must be a religious leader.

He adjourned the case until September 4 for hearing.

The Star