A Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan on Friday, sentenced a 20-year-old man, Samuel John, to six months in prison for stealing beans worth N20,000.
The Court’s President, Mrs. Sukurat Yusuf, sentenced John after he pleaded guilty to two-count charge of house breaking and stealing.
Yusuf sentenced John without an option of fine and held that the convict should be kept in the Agodi Correctional facility in Ibadan.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Mr Philip Amusan, had told the court that John committed the offences on Sept. 2, at about 6. 00 p.m, at Omi-Adio area, Ibadan.
Amusan said the convict broke into the house of Mrs Felicia Oni and stole the beans without her consent.
He said the offences contravened Sections 411 and 390(9) of the Criminal Laws of Oyo State, 2000. (NAN)
