A 28-year old auto mechanic, Akeem Jimoh, has bagged a three-year jail term for stealing some tubers of yams worth N35,000, PUNCH Metro gathered on Wednesday.
The defendant had admitted committing the crime when he appeared before an Osogbo Chief Magistrate’s Court earlier in the day.
In the charge sheet containing details of the offence committed by the defendant, Jimoh was accused of stealing 17 tubers of yams behind Africa Primary School, Ataoja Area in Osogbo, around 10pm on Friday, July 25, 2025.
After listening to his charge, the defendant, who had no legal representation, pleaded guilty to the one count charge bordeering on theft, pressed against him by the police.
The details of the charge further read, “That you, Jimoh Akeem, ‘M’ on July 27, 2025, at about 10:00 pm at the back of Africa Primary School, Ataoja Area, Osogbo in the Osogbo Magisterial District, did steal 17 tubers of yams valued at the sum of N35,000.00 only, property of one Tiamiyu Abegunde, ‘m.’
“And thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap 34, Vol 2, Law of Osun state of Nigeria, 2003.”
Asked why he committed the act, Jimoh told the court that he stole the items due to hunger, and pleaded for leniency.
Addressing the court, the police prosecutor, Babatunde Olukokun, said in the confessional statement that Jimoh wrote after his arrest that he had previously served a three-year jail term, after the man he stood surety for jumped bail.
In her ruling, the Presiding Magistrate, Muibah Olatunji, sentenced Jimoh to three years in prison with hard labour and without any option of fine.
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