A company worker, Ndubisi Onwena, has been arrested by the police in Lagos and charged before Ejigbo Magistrate’s court for allegedly setting a paper company ablaze over unpaid salary.
it was gathered that Onwena locked the company gate to prevent workers from entering the premises.
He then set fire on the company and all the properties in the company were razed to ashes.
The 22-year old was alleged to have poured some petrol on the warehouse and lit it with matches. The paper company warehouse belongs to Chief John Ojiaku who allegedly owed the workers arrears of salary.
Goods and properties worth millions of naira were destroyed.
The incident happened at 21, Adesholani street Igando New Town, on the outskirts of Lagos.
It was also gathered that Onwena was not happy that Chief Ojiaku was owing his workers arrears of salary while he was living in affluence.
Onwena said that though Ojiakur was owing him salary, he did not burn the place. He claimed that the place might have been ignited by cigarette fire.
Before the day of the incident an angry Onwena had demanded his salaries from Ojiaku which he rebuffed. Onwena warned him that it was unfair to be owing the workers and demanded that his should be paid. The next day the company went up in flames.
He was arrested and charged to court for arson. Part of the charge reads: “That you Ndubisi Onwena on the same date time and place. Did willfully and unlawfully set a warehouse paper company ablaze.”
He pleaded not guilty to the charge. The presiding Magistrate, Mrs. M. B. Folami granted him bail in the sum of N500, 000 with two sureties each in like sum.
The matter was adjourned till 16 April 2012 for mention.
He was remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri, Apapa, Lagos because nobody showed up to effect his bail.
via P.M.NEWS
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