AN Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, remanded 26-year-old Jegede Adebowale for allegedly stealing an iron sheet valued at N1.5 million.
OSUN DEFENDER reports that the item is the property of the Osun government-owned Oranmiyan Memorial Grammar School, Ile-Ife.
According to the prosecutor, Insp. Sunday Osanyintuyi, the defendant, committed the offence around 5 am on June 13.
Osanyintuyi said that the defendant entered into the school premises situated on Road 7, Ile-Ife, “with intent to commit felony therein.”
He further said that the defendant “maliciously and unlawfully removed and damaged” some iron sheets from five classrooms in the school.
The prosecutor said the defendant stole 300 pieces of the iron sheets, valued at N1.5 million.
The offence, according to the police, contravened sections 383, 390(9), 411 and 453 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Osun, 2002.
The defendant, who was not legally represented, pleaded guilty to the three-count charge of: entering, malicious damage, and stealing.
Magistrate Abosede Sarumi did not grant bail to the defendant but ordered for his remand at the Ile-Ife Correctional Centre.
Sarumi, thereafter, adjourned the case to July 14 for hearing.
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