Court jails ex-convict three years for stealing yams in Osun
A 28-year-old auto mechanic, Akeem Jimoh, has bagged a three-year jail term for stealing some tubers of yams worth N35,000.
Jimoh admitted to committing the crime when he appeared before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
In the charge sheet containing details of the offence committed by the defendant, Jimoh stole 17 tubers of yams behind Africa Primary School, Ataoja Area in Osogbo, around 10 pm on Friday, July 25, 2025.
After listening to his charge, the defendant, who had no legal representation, pleaded guilty to the one-count charge bothering on theft, pressed against him by the police.
The charge read, “That you, Jimoh Akeem ‘M’ on the 27th July, 2025 at about 10:00 pm at the back of Africa Primary School, Ataoja Area, Osogbo in the Osogbo Magisterial District did steal 17 pieces of tubers of yam valued as the sum of 35,000.00 Thirty-five thousand Naira only property of one Tiamiyu Abegunde ‘m.’
“And thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap 34, Vol 2, Law of Osun state of Nigeria, 2003.”
Asked why he committed the act, Jimoh told the court that he stole the items due to hunger, and pleaded for leniency.
Addressing the court, the police prosecutor, Babatunde Olukokun, said in the confessional statement that Jimoh wrote after his arrest, he said he had previously served a three-year jail term, after the man he stood surety for jumped bail.
In her ruling, the Presiding Magistrate, Muibah Olatunji, sentenced Jimoh to a 3-year jail term with hard labour and without the option of a fine.
In July, a 21-year-old Adebanjo Segun was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for stealing a fowl in Ogun.
Similarly, one Kazeem Tobi was equally sentenced to six months imprisonment for stealing an Elepaq generator valued at about N120,000 only.
