Eight days after Adeleke’s pardon, ex-convict rearrested for stealing TV in Osun

A middle-aged man, Sunday Omisakin, one of the ex-convicts granted a state pardon by Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke on December 24, 2024, has been remanded in the Ilesa Correctional Centre by a Chief Magistrates Court, sitting in Osogbo, for stealing a plasma television set. The ex-convict who was number 8 on the list of ex-convicts granted a state pardon, returned to crime on January 3, 2025, by breaking into a house at Iludun area, Osogbo, to steal a plasma TV worth N600,000. A charge sheet obtained by our reporter on Tuesday, “COUNT I” read: “That you Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m’ on the 3rd day of January 2025 at about 12:00 pm at the Al-medinat Area, Iludun in the Osogbo Magistrarial district did break and entered the house of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’ and steal one Plasma TV valued the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (N600,000:00k) only.” COUNT II: “That you Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m’ and on the same date, time and place in the Aforementioned Magisterial District did Steal one Plasma TV valued the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (#600,000:00k) only property of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’.” He was said to have committed offences contrary to and punishable under Section 411 (1) (2) of Criminal Code Cap 34 vol.Il, Section 383 and 390 (9) of Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.II laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002. Upon his first arraignment on January 7, he applied for bail, but Magistrate A. Adeyeba adjourned the matter till January 10 to rule on the bail application. In his ruling, the Chief magistrate ordered that the defendant be reminded in Ilesa correctional centre.

Eight days after Adeleke’s pardon, ex-convict rearrested for stealing TV in Osun

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