Man Celebrates In Court After Being Jailed For Stealing

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

It appears that some Nigerians now prefer to spend their lives in prison custody following the celebration of a 27-year old man, Ahmed Raymon, at the Court premises as he was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment for stealing phones in Lagos.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the convict, Raymon, was seen raising his two hands up, celebrating and praising God for answering his prayers before the Isolo Magistrates Court after the Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. O.A. Akokhia, found him guilty of stealing and convicted him.

Immediately after the judgement and the Magistrate rose after the sitting in Court, Raymon started ‘praise and worship’ at the premises of the Court.

He said he knew that God, who answers prayer by fire, answered him for the Presiding Magistrate, Akokhia, to have jailed him for the offence he reportedly committed.

While Raymon was expressing happiness that his prayer was answered, his action shocked both the litigants present in Court and the prosecutor, Mr. Oje Uagbale, who had asked the Court to jail Raymon accordingly to serve as deterrent to other criminals who might try to steal in future.

Raymon was arrested by the Police at Ilasamaja Division for entering No. 6 Balogun Street, Ilasamaja area of Lagos, to steal about five mobile phones belonging to tenants around 2am and was going before he was apprehended by security men on duty and handed over to the Police.

The phones were recovered from him as exhibits and the owners namely Balogun Idris, Taiwo Habeeb, Abudurasaq Kujenya, Iman Temidayo and Azeez Afolabi went to the station and identified their phones.

Raymon confessed before the Police that he entered the compound while they were sleeping, stole the phones and attempted to escape before he was apprehended on the road by night security guards and brought to the station.

He was subsequently charged before the Court and he pleaded not guilty but was sentenced accordingly before he started jubilating at the Court premises.

But that did not come as a surprise to the prison warders, who remarked that some Nigerians now prefer to go to prison especially the hardened criminals, who thought prison was better than the outside world.