Lagos — A 20-year-old Samuel Emmanuel, who stole a Blackberry mobile
phone valued at N21,000, was, yesterday in Lagos sentenced to three
months community service.
An Oshodi Magistrates’ court which
handed down the judgment said the court had no option than to sentence
Emmanuel since he had pleaded guilty to the offence.
The
Magistrate, Mr Akeem Fashola, ruled: “You (Emmanuel) are hereby
sentenced to three months community service without an option of fine
since you have pleaded guilty to the charge.”
Fashola said the accused should serve the punishment within Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area.
Earlier,
the prosecutor, Cpl. Kehinde Olatunde, told the court that the accused
committed the offence on August 9 at Odalume Street, Sogunle.
According to him, the accused stole the phone belonging to Dolapo Audu, where he was charging it.
He
said: “Audu was charging his phone at a viewing centre when the
accused, who came pretending he wanted to play games, stole it.
“When
the accused was arrested the following day, he confessed that he had
sold the phone to someone in Ikeja Computer Village for N10,000.”
Olatunde said the offence contravened Section 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
Section 285 provides three years imprisonment for stealing.
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