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Ex-convict bags 4 years imprisonment for stealing company vehicle, drugs
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 convict was granted amnesty from the Agodi Correctional Facility in Ibadan in January by former Oyo State Chief Judge, Justice Munta Abimbola.
A Student Of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Osun State, has died after being hit by a trailer driver on Monday, April 15.
The Accident was said to have occurred when the driver, who was reportedly driving against traffic, collided with the motorcycle conveying a student named Olanrewaju Olatona and another passenger along the Ikirun-Osogbo road area of the state.
Due to the severe impact, Olanrewaju Olatona, a National Diploma 2 student, suffered fatal injuries. He died at the scene.
Olatona, who was the Financial Secretary of the Department of Mass Communication, was preparing for the one-year Industrial Training programme.
The driver fled the scene after the accident and has not been apprehended.
Subsequently, Osun State Polytechnic students organised a procession in front of the school gate and blocked the expressway for several hours.
Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped Joshua Rogers, the ChannelsTV reporter in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Politics Nigeria learnt that Rogers was picked up close to his residence at Rumuosi in Port Harcourt and to an unknown destination by the gunmen around 9pm on Thursday, April 11.
The reporter was driving his official ChannelsTV branded car when the hoodlums accosted, pointed a gun at him and took him away in the same vehicle.
Rogers was said to be returning from his official assignment in Government House after a trip to Andoni for a government event when the incident happened.
Already, the gunmen were said to have contacted his wife and demanded a N30million ransom for bis release.
His cameraman confirmed the incident and appealed to his abductors to set him free unconditionally.
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