Funmilayo Okunade
Ado-Ekiti, – An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Thursday, sentenced a 21-year-old man, Owolabi Olamide, to four years imprisonment with for breach of peace and unlawful escape from police custody.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Michael Faola, sentenced the defendant to three years imprisonment for causing breach of peace by jumping through the fence and one year imprisonment, with hard labour, for escape from police custody, after pleading guilty to the charges.
Faola, who said that the sentences would run concurrently, ordered that all the items recovered from the convict, currently in police custody, be released to the complainant.
The Police Prosecutor, Insp Bamikole Olasunkanmi, had told the court that the convict committed the offences on Oct. 4 at Yaweh area of Ado-Ekiti.
Olasunkanmi told the court that the convict was arraigned on a five-count charge bordering on shop breaking, breach of peace, stealing and escape from police custody.
He said that the convict jumped through the fence of one Otutu Ifeanyi, broke into his shop and stole items worth millions of naira.
The prosecutor also said that the convict unlawfully escaped from police custody before he was later apprehended.
According to him, the offences contravene Sections 181, 322, 363 and 120(a) of the Criminal Law, No. 12, Vol. 1, Laws of Ekiti State, 2021.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the complainant, Ifeanyi, who was led in evidence by the prosecutor, tendered cartons of power bank, tracked and recovered Infinix phone, cartons of phones and other valuables as exhibits.
NAN also reports that the convict did not object to all the exhibits tendered and also confessed to have committed the offences as charged. (NAN)
