Ex-convict granted state pardon re-arrested for stealing TV in Osun

One Sunday Omisakin had been remanded in the Ilesa Correctional Centre by an Osogbo Chief Magistrates Court, sitting in Osogbo, for stealing a plasma television set.

Omisakin is number 8 on the list of ex-convicts granted state pardon by Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke on December 24, 2024.

He had been earlier convicted for simple offences but got a state pardon alongside Segun Olowookere and Sunday Morakinyo, both sentenced to death for armed robbery and stealing of foul in Oyan, Osun State.

However, according to a charge sheet used to arraign Omisakin and obtained on Tuesday, he returned to crime on January 3, 2025, breaking into a house in the Inudun Area, Osogbo, and stealing a plasma TV worth N600,000.

The charge partly read, “COUNT I: That you Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m’ on the 3rd day of January 2025 at about 12:00 pm at the Al-medinat Area, Iludun in the Osogbo Magistrarial district did break and entered the house of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’ and steal one Plasma TV valued the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (#600,000:00k) only.

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“COUNT II: 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 the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (#600,000:00k) only property of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’.”

He was said to have committed offences contrary to and punishable under Section 411 (1) (2) of criminal code cap 34 vol.Il and Section 383 and punishable under 390 (9) of Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.II laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.

Upon his first arraignment on January 7, he applied for bail, but Magistrate A. Adeyeba adjourned the matter till January 10 to rule on the bail application.

The prosecutor, Kayode Adeoye, had opposed the bail application, and in his ruling on the application on January 10, Adeyeba declined it and remanded the defendant in Ilesa Correctional Centre.