An Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 35-year-old man, Kabiru Lawal, to three months imprisonment for stealing goats and ram.
The accused, who lives at Olomore area of Abeokuta, had pleaded guilty to the two-count charge of stealing and conversion preferred against him.
The presiding Magistrate, Mrs V.B. William, convicted Lawal, following his guilty plea to all the charges.
The Magistrate, thereafter, sentenced him to three months each for the first and second counts, saying that the sentence must run concurrently.
However, the accused was given an option of restituting the amount of the goat and ram to the complainant.
The Prosecutor, Insp Lawrence Olu-Balogun, had earlier told the court that Lawal committed the offences sometime in June 2023 at No. 47, Kuforiji Olubi drive, Abeokuta.
The prosecutor said that the defendant fraudulently obtained eight goats and one ram, all valued at N300,000, property of one Mr Ibrahim Akanbi, under the pretence of helping the complainant sell the goats and ram.
“The complainant gave the defendant eight goats and a ram to help him sell them, but the defendant sold all of them and converted the money to his personal use.
“After committing the crime, he ran out of Ogun state without remitting the money to the complainant, but was later caught,” he said.
The prosecutor said that the offences were in contravention of the provisions of Section 419(b) and 390(3) of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun, 2006.
