Guards Get Two-Year Jail Term For Stealing

A Lagos State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Yaba has sentenced two security guards to two years imprisonment each for stealing properties belonging to a hotel in the state.

The convicts, Wilfred John, 32, and Tunde Atatero, 32, were arraigned before Magistrate A.O. Salawu on an 18-counts of stealing on May 16, 2024.

The defendants pleaded guilty to 12 out of the 18 counts they were charged with.

In a judgement delivered on Monday, Magistrate Salawu gave a two-year jail term each rather than sentencing each count individually because the convicts “saved the time of the court.”

According to the prosecutor, Godwin Oriabure, the convicts committed the offence on February 28, 2024, at Ivory Exclusive Hotel, Gbagada.

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Oriabure also added that the offence contravened and is punishable under section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos state, 2015.

One of the counts read: “That you, Wilfred John ‘M’, Tunde Atatero ‘M’ and others at large on the 28th day of February, 2024 at Ivory Exclusive Hotel, Ifako, Gbagada, Lagos State in the Yaba Magisterial district did conspire amongst yourself to commit felony to wit stealing and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 411 of the criminal law of Lagos State, 2015.”

Another count reads “ That you, Wilfred John ‘M’, Tunde Atatero ‘M’ and others at large on the same date, time and place at the above aforementioned magisterial district did steal four pieces of Midea 1HP Air conditioner valued N1,920,000 ( one million, Nine hundred and twenty thousand naira), property of Ivory Exclusive Hotel, Gbagada and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 287 (7) of the criminal law of Lagos state of Nigeria, 2015.”