DISASTROUS: Man gets 3-year jail term for stealing phone handset, as pension thi

The man was sentenced to three years in jail for stealing a telephone handset worth N17, 000 even as pension thief who stole N2billion is freed

Less than 24 hours after an Abuja High Court sentenced Pension Thief Yakubu Yusuf to two years in prison for admitting to stealing around N2 billion, an Ikare Magistrate Court in Ondo State has sentenced another man to three years in prison for stealing a telephone handset worth N17, 000.

The Abuja court had on Monday sentenced the former director of the Police Pension Board, Yakubu Yusuf, to two-year imprisonment.

Mr. Yusuf pleaded guilty to two-count charges of embezzling about N2 billion of the total N33 billion stolen from police pensions. He was, however, given an option of fine of N250, 000 instead of going to jail.

Adepoju Jamiu, 23, living in Ondo was not so lucky. On Tuesday, the Ikare Magistrate Court sentenced him to three years imprisonment for stealing a China Blackberry phone worth N17, 000.

Like pension thief Yusuf, Mr. Jamiu also pleaded guilty to the charge.

If the ratio of years of sentence was relative to the amount stolen and the same law was used to try both men, should Mr. Jamiu be jailed 3 years, Mr., Yusuf would have been sentenced to at least 110,000 years in jail.

Not only was Mr. Jamiu given a seemingly incomparable jail sentence, he was not given an option of fine by Chief Magistrate Sunday Adeniyan.

Mr. Jamiu’s crime

The police prosecutor, Aigbojie Amileomen, told the court that the stolen phone belonged to one Suleiman Asimiyi.

While briefing the court on the case, the prosecutor said the accused committed the offence in November 2012 at about 5.30 a.m. at Olukare Central Mosque, Inu Odi, Okela, Ikare.

When the case was read, the accused pleaded guilty as charged.

Mr. Adeniyan convicted Mr. Jamiu having found him guilty.

He said Mr. Jamiu’s action violated Section 383(1) and punished him under Section 390(9) of the Criminal Code Cap 37, volume one, laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.

He therefore ordered that Mr. Jamiu should remain in prison for three years without an option of fine.

Posted: at 30-01-2013 03:01 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

 

Posted: at 30-01-2013 03:30 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

Why should he go and steal phone worth just 17k the judge was angry At him na. When his mates are stealing billions of naira. That serves him right so nxt time he will know what to steal.

Posted: at 30-01-2013 03:34 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

Even though am not justifying wat he did, na poor man he be, if na rich man steal billions, dem go give presidential pardon and a tittle.

Posted: at 30-01-2013 09:45 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Poor man wey steal maggi,dem go see him face 4 crime fighter
but
rich man wey steal money,wey no dey see their face 4 crime fighter

Posted: at 30-01-2013 09:59 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Bad country to be born indeed, A country with none existence of human right,the reckless laws only attract the poor masses
and the greedy leaders are above the law.
The surfer too much in Nigeria do we still have some heroes willing to voluntarily sterilized and assassinate the vampires we
call leaders from the ground upward? for the future of the country and for our children apart from those idiots Massob,mend in the east whose fingers are soil in greed and are only seen or heard threatening when they are broke
and need some payday.anyone ?

Posted: at 3-07-2016 08:23 AM (7 years ago) | Hero