An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun State on Tuesday sentenced two men: Nurudeen Hamzat, 20 and Bashir Sheu, 31, to two years imprisonment for stealing armoured transformer cables valued at N300,000.
The Chief Magistrate, O. Oke, sentenced the convicts without option of fines after they pleaded guilty to the charges against them.
Oke said the prosecution had proven beyond reasonable doubts that the convicts were guilty of the offence.
The Police Prosecutor, Inspector G Adebayo, said the convicts committed the offence on November 11 at about 4:05am in Iganmode, Ota.
Adebayo said they conspired to steal the cables valued at N300,000 belonging to Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, Ota Business Unit.
She said the convicts also damaged other cables while trying to steal the items.
The prosecutor said the offence contravened sections 390(9),451 and 516 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun, 2006.
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