Woman Bags six Months Jail Term for Stealing

Justice O. O. Majekudunmi of the Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta has convicted and sentenced one Folashade Olukemi Adeleke to six months imprisonment without an option of fine on two court charge bordering on stealing contrary to section 390(9) of the Criminal Code Cap Act C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
The convict who was arraigned by the Ibadan Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Friday 25th November, 2016 and pleaded not guilty to the two count charge preferred against her was later found guilty of the charges after full trial.
The Court convicted and sentenced her accordingly.
Folashade’s journey to the prison followed a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from a complainant (name withheld) alleging that the convict defrauded her of the sum of 6,750,000.00 (Six Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) under the guise that she had a four bedroom bungalow available for sale in Abeokuta Ogun State.
The petition further alleged that after payment was made to the convict’s account domiciled in one of the new generation banks (name withheld) she allegedly diverted the money to her own use instead of transmitting the money to the owner of the property. This resulted to the owner of the property closing business with the petitioner and all efforts made to retrieve the money were unavailing.
One of the charges to which she was convicted reads: Folashade Olukemi Adeleke on or about the 18th of November 2013 at Abeokuta within the Abeokuta Judicial Division stole the sum of N4, 000,000.00 (Four Million Naira) only property of one Saheed Salawe which sum you received from Virgina Ngozi Ojelade as part payment for the purchase of a property situate and lying at Ajebo Road Estate, Abeokuta.