An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 48-year-old man, Remilekun Adekunle, to four years imprisonment for malicious damage and felony.
Adekunle, whose address was not provided, was convicted on a two-count charge of intent to commit a felony and damage to a fence valued at N150,000.
The Magistrate, Mr S. S. Shotayo, said the prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty as charged.
Shotayo, however, convicted Adekunle for two years for each of the counts and to run consecutively.
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He also gave an option of N150,000 as restitution to the complainant, Mr Mohammed Nasiru, to pay N200,000 as a penal sum to the Ogun State government.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp. Evelyn Motim, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Sept. 20 at about 9:50 pm at Agbo-Eran, Sabo area in Abeokuta.
Motim stated that the defendant, who is an ex-convict, entered the dwelling house of one Mr Mohammed Nasiru the complainant while he was not around, with intent to commit a felony.
She said the defendant damaged the fence of the complainant valued at N150,000.
She said the complainant saw the defendant in his house and shouted for help.
She said while the defendant was trying to escape through the fence, he jumped on the fence and as a result of that, the fence was damaged.
She noted that the offences contravened Sections 411 and 451 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun, 2000.
