Just Eight Days After Adeleke's Pardon, Ex-Convict Re-arrested for TV Theft in Osun

Just Eight Days After Adeleke’s Pardon, Ex-Convict Re-arrested for TV Theft in Osun

One of the ex-convicts granted state pardon by Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke on December 24, 2024, Sunday Omisakin, has been remanded in the Ilesa Correctional Centre by an Osogbo Chief Magistrates Court, sitting in Osogbo, for stealing a plasma television set eight days after he was set free.

 

The ex-convict who was number 8 on the list of ex-convicts granted a state pardon, returned to crime on January 3, 2025, by breaking into a house in  Inudun Area, Osogbo, to steal a plasma TV worth N600,000.

 

One of the charges filed against Omisakin reads;

“That you Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m’ on the 3rd day of January 2025 at about 12:00 pm at the Al-medinat Area, Iludun in the Osogbo Magistrarial district did break and entered the house of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’ and steal one Plasma TV valued the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (N600,000:00k) only.”

 

COUNT II reads

“That you Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m’ and on the same date, time and place in the Aforementioned Magisterial District did Steal one Plasma TV valued the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (#600,000:00k) only property of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’.”

He was said to have committed offences contrary to and punishable under Section 411 (1) (2) of Criminal Code Cap 34 vol.Il and Section 383 and punishable under 390 (9) of Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.II laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002. Upon his first arraignment on January 7, he applied for bail, but Magistrate A. Adeyeba adjourned the matter till January 10 to rule on the bail application.

 

In his ruling, the prosecutor, Kayode Adeoye ordered that the defendant be reminded in the Ilesa correctional centre.

 

 

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