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An ex-convict, Sunday Omisakin, who was granted a pardon by Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke on December 24, 2024, has been remanded in the Ilesa Correctional Centre in Osogbo for stealing a plasma television just eight days after regaining his freedom....TAP TO READ THE FULL CONTENT | TAP TO READ THE FULL CONTENT
Omisakin, 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 in the Inudun Area of Osogbo to steal a plasma TV worth N600,000.
One of the charges filed against Omisakin reads:
“That you Adebayo Omisakin Sunday, on the 3rd day of January 2025 at about 12:00 pm in the Al-medinat Area, Iludun in the Osogbo Magisterial district, did break and entered the house of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’ and steal one Plasma TV valued at the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (N600,000:00k) only.”
The second count reads, “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 at the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (#600,000:00k) only, the property of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’.”
Omisakin was said to have committed offences contrary to and punishable under Section 411 (1) (2) of the Criminal Code Cap 34 vol.Il and Section 383 and punishable under 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.II laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.
During his first arraignment on January 7, 2025, Omisakin applied for bail, but Magistrate A. Adeyeba adjourned the matter until January 10 to rule on the bail application.
In his ruling, the prosecutor, Kayode Adeoye, ordered that the defendant be remanded in the Ilesa correctional centre.
