Burglar Jailed 21 Years For Stealing Food Stuffs
Category: Crime News
An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a burglar, Jimoh Dele, to 21 years’ imprisonment.
According to the charge, the defendant, on May 11, 2020, around Mobil Petrol Station, Waterworks, in the Ajilosun area of Ado Ekiti, broke into a building “as well as a shop belonging to Oluwayemisi Adeleye and carted away goods and foodstuffs worth over N234,000.”
The prosecutor, Kunle Adeyemo, said the offences were contrary to sections 413 and 390(9) of the Criminal Code Law, Cap. C16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.
In her statement to the police, the complainant said, “My shop was burgled twice, in May 2020 and June 2021 during which my foodstuffs and soup ingredients, including rice, semovita, wheat and tomato paste, among others, which I was selling, were stolen.”
A policeman, Sergeant Oladele Ayodeji, in his testimony before the court, said
the defendant was arrested on November 19, 2021.
“During
interrogation, he confessed to have participated in criminal activities such
as kidnapping, burglary and stealing, including breaking into the
complainant’s shop,” he added.
Justice Olalekan Olatawura, who
found the defendant guilty, sentenced him to 14 years on count one and seven
years on count two.
The sentences are to run concurrently.
But AGF of Federation with billions stolen was set free
ReplyDeletePerson wey con kill nko? If only stealing foodstuffs is 21yrs? Abi no be where den land the country make all of them dey steal?💔💔
ReplyDelete21 years for stealing foodstuffs yet politicians who stole billions of public funds are given presidential pardon after spending just 6 months in jail. Even when we know that many of them never saw the walls of any Nigerian prison..
ReplyDeleteIt's only in Nigeria that petty thieves are left to rot in jail while the actual criminals are celebrated and given awards by the government.