Two hotel security guards, Wilfred John, 32, and Tunde Atatero, 32, have been sentenced in Lagos State to two years imprisonment each for stealing properties worth N1.9m belonging to the hotel they were employed to guard.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that it was the judgment of the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos, which found them guilty and sentenced them accordingly for conspiracy and stealing.
The convicts, John and Atatero, were arraigned before Magistrate A.O. Salawu on an 18-counts of stealing on 16th May, 2024, for the alleged offence.
They pleaded guilty to 12 out of the 18 counts they were charged for.
The Presiding Magistrate, A.O Salawu, gave a two-year jail term each rather than sentencing for each count individually because the convicts saved the time of the court.
The prosecutor, Godwin Oriabure, while presenting the facts of the matter said that the convicts committed the offence on 28th February, 2024, at Ivory Exclusive Hotel, Gbagada, and the offence contravened and is punishable under Section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
One of the counts read: “That you, Wilfred John ‘M’, Tunde Atatero ‘M’ and others at large on the 28th day of February, 2024, at Ivory Exclusive Hotel, Ifako, Gbagada, Lagos State in the Yaba Magisterial district, did conspire amongst yourself to commit felony to wit stealing and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 411 of the criminal law of Lagos State, 2015.”
Another count read, “ That you, Wilfred John ‘M’, Tunde Atatero ‘M’ and others at large on the same date, time and place at the above aforementioned magisterial district, did steal four pieces of Midea 1HP Air conditioner valued N1,920,000 ( one million, Nine hundred and twenty thousand Naira), property of Ivory Exclusive Hotel, Gbagada and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 287 (7) of the criminal law of Lagos tate of Nigeria, 2015.”
The Court found them guilty as charged and sentenced them accordingly.