Adegoke Akinleye and Adediran Adewole were found guilty of robbing their employer, Ibukun Sanusi, of 404 pieces of catfish by a Magistrates Court in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State.
Justice O.O. Odumosu sentenced the defendants, former farm laborers in Ilewo, Abeokuta, on Wednesday, following their arraignment on two counts of felony and the theft of catfish valued at N606,000.
She imposed separate sentences of six months each for the first offense and one year each for the second count on the two culpable parties.
However, Odumosu gave the guilty the option to pay a fine of N10,000 for each imprisonment sentence, provided they repaid the complainant for the N606,000 they had been imprisoned for.
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Olakunle Shonibare, the prosecutor, informed the court that the offenses committed on January 24, 2023 violated Sections 516(1) and 382(2) of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State.
The charge read in part; “That you, Akinleye Adegoke, Adewole Adediran and others at large on January 24, 2023 at about 12noon at Abidelep Farm and Agro-Service Limited, Ilewo, Orile, Abeokuta in the magisterial district did conspire to commit felony and thereby committed an offence contrary and punishable under Section 516(1) of the Criminal Laws of Ogun State.
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That you, Akinleye Adegoke, Adewole Adediran and others at large on the same date, time and place in the aforesaid magisterial district did steal 404 pieces of catfish valued at N606,000 property of one Mrs Sanusi Ibukun and thereby committed an offence contrary and punishable under Section 382(2) of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State.”
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