Ibadan – A 40-year-old man,
Kenneth Ekeh, was on Tuesday
sentenced by an Ibadan
Magistrates’ Court sitting at
Iyaganku to 15 years
imprisonment over N210,000
fraud.
Magistrate Kehinde Omotosho
convicted Ekeh of three charges
including obtaining money under
false pretence and stealing.
Omotosho did not give the
convict option of fine.
The prosecutor, Cpl. Sunday
Ojeleye, said that the defendant
was arraigned on a five-count
charge which included
obtaining money under false
pretence and stealing.
Ojeleye said that Ekeh specialises
in stealing gas cylinders and
defrauding people, adding that
he was arrested on Nov. 11,
2011.
The prosecutor told the court
that the offences contravened
sections 419 and 390 (9) of the
Criminal Code Cap 38 Vol. II Laws
of Oyo State of Nigeria, 2000.
The defendant had pleaded not
guilty to the charges.
Satisfied with the evidence
before her, Omotoso sentenced
Ekeh to five years imprisonment
with hard labour for each of the
three charges, adding that the
sentence would run
concurrently. (NAN)