Court sentences 2 to jail for stealing N1.1m generator<\/p>\n
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By Saheed Adigun<\/p>\n
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Abeokuta<\/strong><\/p>\n An Abeokuta Magistrate\u2019s Court in Isabo, on Thursday, sentenced two men to a year imprisonment each for stealing a generator valued at N1.1 million.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The defendants, Mohammed Tijani, 25, and Abah Yusuf, 23, both of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to a three-count charge of conspiracy, burglary and stealing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Delivering her judgment, the Magistrate, Miss O.T. Odunbanjo, convicted the defendants following their guilty plea to the charges.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Odunbanjo subsequently sentenced each convict to one year imprisonment for conspiracy and burglary, but with an option of N25,000 fine on each count.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She also sentenced each convict to six months imprisonment for stealing, with an option of N10,000 fine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The magistrate said that the sentences should run concurrently.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Opeyemi Lawal, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on July 9 at about 8:00 p.m., at Bamigboye Village, Ogunmakin.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lawal said the convicts conspired and broke into the tyre shop of one Mr Olayemi Peter, where they stole a Firman generator valued at N1.1 million.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He said the defendants were arrested while attempting to transport the stolen generator on a commercial motorcycle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to him, police investigation revealed that Yusuf had engaged a commercial motorcyclist to convey the stolen generator.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cHowever, the motorcyclist recognised the shop and alerted Peter, leading to the arrest of the defendants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lawal said that the offences committed contravened Sections 383, 390(9), 411 and 516 of the Criminal Code, Vol. 1, Laws of Ogun State, 2006.(www.primerisenees.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Abeokuta Magistrate\u2019s Court in Isabo, on Thursday, sentenced two men to a year imprisonment each for stealing a generator valued at N1.1 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72],"tags":[155,159,157,156,158],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-court","tag-generator","tag-jail","tag-sentences","tag-stealing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-09-at-12.07.50.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}