31st July, 2018
Paul Iyoghojie
An Igbosere Magistrate Court, Lagos has sentenced three hoodlums terrorising and robbing members of the public and motorists of their belongings along Law School bus stop and Muri Okunola Park area of Victoria Island to six months imprisonment without an options of fine.
The convicts are Oladele Dada,25; Mutiu Bolaji, 30 and Damilola Faleye, 28.
They were jailed by Magistrate M.O Ope Agbe after the convicts pleaded guilty to the four count charges of robbing a driver, Emmanuel Akpata and Femi Michael of their infinite phone valued N28,000, blackberry Classic phone, valued N35,000 and N5,000 cash all valued at N78,000 and inflicted grievous injuries occasioning harm on them with broken bottles and knives at Muri Okunola Park when the Iveco truck with Reg. number EKY 779 XT they were travelling broke down in the area.
Police said that the journey to jail started for the convicts on 18 June, 2018 at about 7.30pm at Muri Okunola Park, Law School bus stop,Victoria Island, when they rushed out from under the flowers at the Park with others still at large, armed with broken bottles and knives, stabbed the complainants and robbed them of their belongings.
Police said that nemesis, however, caught up with the suspects when a team of Police on a patrol arrived the scene and arrested the convicts while others escaped.
During investigation, the convicts confessed to the crime that they usually hide inside the flowers at Muri Okunola Park at the Law School bus stop under bridge to rob road users and motorists whose vehicles broke down at night and early in the morning in the area.
And after investigation by Inspector Babatunde Abayomi and his team, the convicts were charged to Court for stealing and stabbing occasioning grievous injuries, offences punishable under sections 411, 245, 287 and 355 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
The convicts pleaded guilty to the charges in the open Court and the facts of the matter presented before the Court by the Police Counsel, Cyriacus Osuji.
Magistrate M.O Ope Agbe subsequently sentenced the convicts to six months each of imprisonment without an options of fine.