An Iyaganku Magistrate court holden in Ibadan has sentenced one Mathew Adeleke, 23, to a three-month imprisonment for stealing a 32 inches plasma television.
Adeleke who was charged on three counts was arraigned in Court 12, presided over by Chief Magistrate O. O. Olatunji.
After reading the counts to him, Adeleke who pleaded guilty to two of the three charges pressed against him prayed the court to have mercy on him, saying that hunger led him to commit the crime.
The prosecutor, Sergeant S. Hammed told the court that the accused committed the crime on October 2nd and that the offences were contrary to section 383 and punishable under section 413 of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Volume II, Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria.
The charge sheet reads, “That you Mathew Adeleke, male on the 2nd day of October, 2017, at about 9am at No 7 Adetokunbo Olofin street, Oloogbo Estate, Ologuneru Area of Ibadan in the Omi Adio Magisterial District broke into the house of Adedotun Augustine, male and thereby committed felony therein to wit stealing, and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 383 and punishable under section 413 of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Volume II, Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria.
“That you Mathew Adeleke, m, on the same date, time and place in the aforementioned Magisterial District did steal a Samsung Plasma 32 inches Television valued at N45, 000, property of one Adedotun Augustine, m, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 390 (v) of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Volume II Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria, 2000.
“That you Mathew Adeleke, male sometimes in the month of September 2017 at Yanla, area of Ologuneru Ibadan, stole one phone valued at N65, 000 property of one Joesph Elizabeth, female and thereby contravene an offence punishable under Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Volume II laws of Oyo State of Nigeria, 2000”
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