A Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba has sentenced two security guards to two years in prison each for stealing property from Ivory Exclusive Hotel in Gbagada.
Wilfred John, 32, and Tunde Atatero, also 32, faced 18 counts of theft and were arraigned before Magistrate A.O. Salawu on May 16, 2024. The defendants pleaded guilty to 12 of the charges.
Magistrate Salawu opted for a two-year sentence for each convict instead of individual sentences for each count, citing that the defendants “saved the time of the court.”
According to prosecutor Godwin Oriabure, the theft occurred on February 28, 2024. The charges against the guards contravened section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
One charge stated: “That you, Wilfred John ‘M’, Tunde Atatero ‘M’, and others at large, on the 28th of February, 2024, at Ivory Exclusive Hotel, Ifako, Gbagada, Lagos State, in the Yaba Magisterial district, conspired to commit felony to wit stealing, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”
Another count detailed that the defendants stole four Midea 1HP air conditioners valued at N1,920,000 (one million, nine hundred and twenty thousand naira), property of Ivory Exclusive Hotel, in violation of section 287(7) of the same law.
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