Ekiti Man Gets 2 Months In Prison For Stealing Cooking Pots
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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday, sentenced a 33-year-old man, Ige Bola, to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour for stealing cooking pots valued at N100,000.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Bankole Oluwasanmi, sentenced Bola following his guilty plea and facts of the case.
Delivering Judgment, Oluwasanmi found the convict guilty and sentenced him to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
The prosecutor, Insp Elijah Adejare, had told the court that the convict committed the offence on July 31 at about 6:30 p.m., in Ilawe-Ekiti.
Adejare said the convict stole three cooking pots valued at N100, 000 belonging to one Adenike Temiyemi.
He said that the now convict stole the cooking pot in Ilawe-Ekiti and brought it to Ado-Ekiti, adding that the Agro marshal security officers apprehended him, while he was compressing the cooking pots and later handed him to the police.
He added that the convict confessed to the crime and the police recovered the cooking pots from him.
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 302(1) (a) of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021.
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