An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court II, sitting at Isabo, on Tuesday sentenced a 26-year-old man, Joseph Oge, to six months’ imprisonment for stealing a Bajaj motorcycle and other items valued at N200,000. The trial judge, Mr Emmanuel Adekunte, however, gave him an option of N40,000 fine.
Adekunte, thereafter, advised youths to desist from flocking in the company of bad friends, saying that bad company corrupts good manners. The Prosecutor, Insp Augustine Ozimini, had earlier told the court that the convict and one other, presently at large, committed the offence on July 24 at about 9.p.m., at Better Life Bread Junction, Akingbala-Titun in Abeokuta.
He said that Oge and his accomplice stole one Bajaj motorcycle, an Airtel phone and a sum of N8,600, all valued at N200,000, property of Mr Tobi Akinbode, a commercial motorcyclist. “The duo stopped Akinbode at Aregbe junction to take them to Odo-Eran, but they later asked him to stop by a bush path and threatened to stab him with a knife.
“A struggle, afterward, ensued between Akinbode and the two and as Akinbode raised an alarm, passers-by were attracted and came to his rescue. “Attempting to escape, the convict ran into an uncompleted building where he was apprehended,” he said. The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Laws of Ogun, 2006.
The convict, who was represented by his counsel, Peter Oluyemi, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing. Then, Oluyemi pleaded with the court for leniency, saying that his client was lured into stealing by his friend, whom he said, unfortunately, escaped. “When Oge went to him for monetary assistance to further his education, his friend told him he would introduce him to something that would fetch him money,” he said.
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