A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has sentenced a teacher, Adebayo Osayemi, to two years imprisonment for stealing his employer’s phone and money, including €20, all amounting to N237,000.
Magistrate O. O. Latunji said she sentenced the teacher based on evidence against him by the police as well as his guilty plea.
“Osayemi is hereby sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour, without any option of fine,” Latunji said.
Earlier, the police prosecution, Inspector Oluseye Akinola, had told the court that the convict committed the offence on January 13, 2025 at 3, Church Street, Behind Fagbemi filling station, Orita-Challenge, Ibadan, Oyo State.
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According to the prosecution, Osayemi carefully monitored the movement of one Funmilayo Adesinmi, the complainant and proprietress of Montessori Gofas Nursery and Primary School, Ibadan, before strolling into her office to strike.
He further said that Adesinmi told the police investigator that she briefly left her office to buy food stuff from a nearby market, leaving three children behind in the school when the convict entered the office.
Akinola stated that Adesinmi’s daughter had seen Osayemi moving in and they discovered that €20, equivalent to N35,000 and a Techno Smart 4 phone she left on her desk, valued at N95,000, had disappeared.
The prosecutor also said that the convict, before his arrest, transferred N82,000 and N25,000 from Adesinmi’s Money Point and First Bank accounts to his Opay and UBA accounts respectively.
He stated that the offence contravened the provision of Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Vol. II Law of Oyo State 2000.
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