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Unemployed man gets 9 months imprisonment with hard labour for breaking Jeep windshield

 

Sentence

By Adepote Arowojobe
Ikorodu (Lagos State), March 20, 2020(NAN) A Magistrates’ Court in Ikorodu, Lagos State, on Friday sentenced an unemployed man, Tunde Olushola, to nine months imprisonment with hard labour for breaking a Hyundai Creta Jeep windshield.

Magistrate A.R. Onilogbo, sentenced Olushola based on the convict’s confession and evidence that broke the windshield of a Hyundai Creta Jeep worth N295,000 belonging to one Sulaimon Rasaq.

Onilogbo did not give the convict an option to pay any fine.

The police charged Olushola with criminal damage to property.

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, ASP Gbemileke Agoi told the court that the convict committed the offence on March 13, at about 3 p.m. at Ajegunle Ikorodu road in Ikorodu, Lagos state.

HeĀ  said that the offence contravened the provisions of Section 339 and punishable under Section 340 of criminal law of Lagos State, 2015 as amended.(NAN)

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