A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan has sentenced a teacher, Adebayo Osayemi, to two years imprisonment for stealing his employer’s phone and money, totaling N237,000.

Delivering judgment, the Magistrate, Mrs O.O. Latunji, stated that she convicted and sentenced Osayemi based on evidences tendered against him by the police as well as his guilty plea.

“Osayemi is hereby, sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour, without any option of fine,” Latunji said.

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Earlier, the police prosecution, Insp Oluseye Akinola, had told the court that the convict committed the offence on Jan. 13, at No.3, Church St., Behind Fagbemi filling station, Orita-Challenge, Ibadan, Oyo State.

According to the prosecution, Osayemi, carefully monitored the movement of one Funmilayo Adesinmi, the complainant and proprietress of Montesseri Gofas Nursery and Primary School Ibadan, before strolling into her office to strike.

He further said that Adesinmi told the police investigator that she briefly left her office to buy food stuff from a nearby market, leaving three children behind in the school when the convict entered the office.

Akinola stated that Adesinmi’s daughter had seen Osayemi moving in and they discovered that €20, equivalent to N35,000 and a Techno Smart 4 phone she left on her desk, valued at N95,000, had disappeared.

The prosecutor also said that the convict, before his arrest, transferred N82,000 and N25,000 from Adesinmi’s Money Point and First bank accounts to his Opay and UBA accounts, respectively.

He stated that the offence contravened the provision of Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Vol. II Law of Oyo State 2000. 

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A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, ordered an unemployed man, Vincent Danladi, to sweep the court premises for three weeks for stealing one carton of floor tiles and other items worth  N130,000.

The police had earlier charged Danladi, 30, of Ungwan Pama in Kaduna, with theft.

Delivering ruling, Magistrate Ibrahim Emmanuel, said the court took into consideration the fact that Danladi was a first time offender.

He ordered the convict to report to the court for three weeks to sweep the premises, after he pleaded guilty to the offence without an option of fine.

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Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that defendant and two others at large, on Nov. 9, stole a carton of 3×3 floor tiles from a house under renovation in Sabon Tasha in Kaduna.

Leo said the defendant and his accomplices also stole one bucket of paint and one carton of wall tiles, all valued at N130,000.

He added that the defendant was however arrested and the items were recovered from him in the cause of investigation.

He said that the offence contravened Penal Code of Kaduna State 2017.

(NAN)