A Somolu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Monday sentenced a 28- year-old man, Abiodun Ojedokun, to six days of community service for stealing a large pot of soup. The Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, sentenced the convict to 48 hours of community service for each of the three-count charge, after he had pleaded guilty to them. “Based on the facts of this case before this court, the confirmed report and your plea of leniency, I hereby sentence you to 48 hours community service on each of the counts of the charge,” Osunsanmi said.

The convict, arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy, burglary and stealing, pleaded guilty to all the charges preferred against him. The prosecutor, ASP Akinlabi Adegoke, told the court that the convict, who was a casual worker and whose address was unknown, committed the offences on Sept. 20 at 2:00 a.m. at the Onipanu Model Market in Somolu, Lagos State.

“The accused connived with some others, now at large, to break into one Mrs Gbadamosi Sanni’s shop at 2:00 a.m. “They broke the locks and stole her large pot of soup, valued at N8,000,” Adegoke said. The prosecutor told the court that the offences contravened Sections 285, 308 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. Ojedokun pleaded guilty to the charges and asked for leniency, claiming that he committed the offence because he was starving.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/man-28-sentenced-to-6-days-community-service-for-stealing-pot-of-soup/

Arraigned for thiefing a large pot of soup Witches & wizards for oga Abiodun village don swear 4 hin destiny finish..

community service in Nigeria?

This is pathetic . Double whahala for hungry man on the street.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Abuja, some people are eating one billion naira soup. There is god.

[size=16pt]community kini kilonjebe na idile naija ode[/size]

GEJ, you don see wetin you don cause ?

laugh done kill me die oooooo....wetin carry am go dia....

Diaris God oo! Several ppl ar stealing fron the pot of naija's wealth o and av not even bn tried not to talk of brought to justice. Anyway, I dnt xpect anytn less since its just 'ordinary stealing...

ademega:
A

For ashawo

wahala dey o

K

Talk of justice

Again?
God punish unemployment!

Just because of pot of soup.
I think the government is responsible for this, if there was actually job for the man, he won't have bring himself so low.
This country is so fuvved up.

We have clueless stealing our money, yet they were never given a sentence

This one na real owu ! Hunger take my guy.

Wonders shall never end.

Only?

freshness2020:
Again?
God punish unemployment!

a billion time

The kind of punishment I want to see more of in Nigeria. Get them doing something useful, not idling away in jail. Especially in a country like Nigeria that could do with a lot of community service.

Hu u hu hu hu...I laugh in duetch

this is better than letting him rot in jail.

please send him to my street in lagos. he can clear the dirty-green slimy gutter where dangerous mosquitoes use as their breeding ground.

Sound funny....let him wash every cooking pot in Lagos as part of the community service. Laughing in ijebu.

Hungry thief

Fish90:
Only?

make dem hang am before?

Ordinary stealing

Hunger in our land