Teenager bags six months imprisonment for stealing N50,000 worth of electric cables
A 19-year-old teenager, Isaac Olaoti, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment by a magistrate court for stealing electric cables worth N50,000, at the Oke-Oja maternity centre in Iseyin town of Oyo State.
Penpushing reports that Magistrate A.S Durowoju of the magistrate court sitting in Iseyin convicted the teenager, who was said to have been caught while stealing the electric cables, a property of the Oyo State government.
The convict, however, pleaded guilty to the crime upon arraignment, begging the magistrate to temper justice with mercy, while the magistrate, explained that the offence committed is contrary to section 383 and punishable under section 390(9) of the criminal code cap 38 vol 11 law of Oyo State, Nigeria 2000.
Penpushing further reports that the magistrate subsequently sentenced him to six months imprisonment with an option of four weeks of community service.
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