An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, on Friday, sentenced a 46-year-old driver, Olanrewaju Fakunade, to four years imprisonment for stealing his employer’s vehicle with pharmaceutical drugs worth N7.5 million.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr S. H. Adebisi, sentenced Fakunade who is also an ex-convict after he pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing.
Adebisi said the convict should spend the four years at Abolongo Correctional Facility with hard labour to serve as a deterrent to others intending to commit such crime.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp. Opeyemi Olagunju, had told the court that Fakunade committed the offences with some others still at large on June 14 at Neimeth International Pharmaceutical PLC in Ibadan.
Olagunju said the defendant stole the company’s Toyota Corolla car with registration number AKD 503 NN which was loaded with pharmaceutical drugs.
“The drugs were worth N3,480,000 and the vehicle worth N4 million the property of Mr Shedrack Onafor.
“He was later arrested along Old Ife Road and by then he had sold the drugs,” the prosecutor said.
Olagunju said the offences contravened Sections 516 and 390 (9) of the Criminal Law of Oyo State, 2000.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the convict was granted amnesty from the Agodi Correctional Facility in Ibadan in January by former Oyo State Chief Judge, Justice Munta Abimbola.
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