12th September, 2024
By Chidinma Ewunonu-Aluko
An 18-year-old man, Mayowa Amoo, has been jailed six months after he pleaded guilty to stealing clothes worth N3 million in Ibadan, Oyo State.
He was arraigned on two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing in Ibadan before Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan on Thursday.
He pleaded guilty to the two-count charge.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Mr Philip Amusan, told the court that Amoo committed the offences with some others still at large on April 3 at Ogunpa Market in Ibadan.
Amusan said the convict who worked at the market stole a bag containing different types of clothes belonging to Mr Colombia Umegboro.
He said Amoo was caught and then handed over to the police.
Amusan said the offences contravened Sections 516 and 390(9) of the Criminal Law of Oyo State, 2000.
The court’s president, Mrs Sukurat Yusuf, sentenced Amoo after he pleaded guilty to the two-count charge.
Yusuf ordered that he should be kept in the Agodi Correctional facility in Ibadan.
She, however, gave the convict the option of paying a N30,000 fine and N1 million restitutions to the complainant.
(NAN)
