Court Jails Man 21 Months For Stealing Motorcycle

An Iyaganku Chief
Magistrates’ Court sitting at Ibadan on Tuesday sentenced 29-year-old Dare Idogbe to 21 months imprisonment for stealing a motorcycle packed beside the court.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs A. F. Richard, ordered that prison term should be with hard labour.
Richard sentenced Idogbe to six months imprisonment for the first charge of conspiracy and one year and three months for stealing, and ordered that the sentences should run concurrently.
Idogbe with no known address was arraigned on March 8, on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing.
He pleaded guilty to the charges, admitting that he was introduced to how to steal motorcycles by somebody he met at an Indian hemp joint at Beere.
He told the court that he usually sold motorcycles he stole at N15, 000.
At arraignment, Police prosecutor, Insp. Sunday Ogunremi, had told the court that Idogbe and one other, now at large, conspired to steal a Bajaj motorcycle.
Ogunremi said that Idogbe stole a Bajaj motorcycle at about 1 p.m. on March 1, 2016, besides Iyaganku Magistrates’ court.
He said that the motorcycle had registration number FDY 793 QB and belonged to one Wasiu Adetoye of Oke-Ado area of Ibadan.
He put the value of the motorcycles at N150, 000 and told the court that the offences contravened sections 516 and 390 of the Criminal Code, Cap 38 Vol. II Laws of Oyo State 2000.