A suspect has been remanded in the Ilesa Correctional Centre by an Osogbo Chief Magistrates Court, Osun State for stealing a plasma television set.
Sunday Omisakin was number eight 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 a chicken in Oyan, Osun State.
However, according to a charge sheet used to arraign Omisakin 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.
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.
