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Man Sentenced To One Year Imprisonment For Stealing 130 Pair of Shoes

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An Oshodi Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced an unemployed man, Ugochukwu Okeke, to one year imprisonment with hard labour for stealing 130 pairs of shoes.

Magistrate Akeem Fashola sentenced Okeke, 20, to one year imprisonment on each of the two counts preferred against him.

Fashola did not give Okeke an option of fine, but ordered that the sentences should run concurrently.

“You are hereby sentenced to one year imprisonment with hard labour and without an option of fine,” he said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okeke, who resides at No. 38, Baderin St., Oshodi, Lagos, had admitted stealing the shoes worth N170,000.

He blamed the theft on the devil.

The police charged him with theft and illicit drug deal.

The Prosecutor, Mr Kehinde Olatunde, had told the court that Okeke committed the offences on Jan.11 at No. 6, Ade-Idowu St., Mafoluku, Oshodi.

He said that the accused broke into a car and made away with two bags containing 130 pair of shoes belonging to Mrs Regina Chinyelugo.

“The accused broke into the complainant’s car parked in her compound at night to steal the shoes sent to her from the United Kingdom.

“When she was going to church the following day, she discovered that her goods had been stolen,” he said.

Olatunde said that a month later, the complainant saw someone selling similar goods and eventually discovered that they were her stolen goods.

“When the accused was arrested, his house was searched by the police; six pairs of the stolen shoes and some quantity of weeds suspected to be India hemp were recovered,” he said.

The prosecutor said that items suspected to be stolen from the Murtala Mohammed International Airport were also recovered from Okeke’s room.

According to the prosecutor, the offences contravene Sections 285 and 327 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2011.(NAN)

Source: Naija Observer

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