Less than
24 hours after an Abuja High Court sentenced Pension Thief John 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,
John 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.
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