Man jailed 9 months for stealing chicks

Wed, Sep 18, 2024
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Judiciary

AN Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Wednesday, sentenced a 23-year-old man, Dare Alamu, to nine months imprisonment for stealing chicks worth N380, 000.

The Court President, Mrs Oluwabusayo Osho sentenced Alamu after he pleaded guilty to one-count charge of stealing.

Osho sentenced Alamu without an option of fine and held that he should be kept in the Agodi Correctional facility in Ibadan.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Olalekan Adegbite told the court that the convict committed the offences four times in August and early September, at Akufo Farm Settlement, Ologuneru, Ido Road, Ibadan.

Adegbite said the convict, who was a security guard at the aforementioned farm settlement but was later laid off, stole the 84 chicks worth N380, 000, belonging to one Tolulope Ajiboye.

He said the offences contravened Section 390(9) of the Criminal Laws of Oyo State, 2000. (NAN)

18th September, 2024.

C.E.

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