27 year-old man bags 12 months imprisonment for stealing belts

27-year-old,  Obinna Eze, on Monday sentenced  to 12 months imprisonment for stealing and intent to commit felony. The judgement was delivered at Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos

The accused, of no fixed address, was arraigned in the court on a two-count charge bordering on intent to commit felony and stealing.

The News Agency of Nigeria  recalls that on March 5, the accused had pleaded guilty on his first arraignment to the two-count charge.

The Magistrate, Mrs Olaitan Ajayi, then, ordered that the accused be remanded at the Ikoyi prison and adjourned the case till March 10 for facts and sentence.

After hearing facts on the case, the magistrate sentenced Eze to six months imprisonment on each of the charge.

The prosecutor, Sgt. Daniel Ighodalo, had told the court that the accused committed the offences on Feb. 27 at 2.00 a.m., at No. 6, Oroyinyin st., Oko-Awo, Lagos Island.

He said that the accused broke into the shop of the complainant, Ganiyu Olorunnisola, and made away with two sacks of foreign and local belts all valued at N250, 000.

Ighodalo, said that the offence contravened sections 307 and 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

(NAN)