On my way to work this morning, I was
listening to Rhythm 93.7 where Toke Makinwa and Naya were discussing a very
serious issue that had not only to do with morality, our nation, and injustice
but also on corruption. The issue was all about the 31 year man who was
sentenced to 45years imprisonment for stealing a
N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone belonging to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, by an Osogbo High Court.
Ighodalo stole the phone from the pocket of
Aregbesola on November 27, 2010, when the governor was being inaugurated at
Government Technical College, Osogbo. Justice Oyejide Falola, who heard the
case, found Ighodalo guilty on six counts, which included conspiracy, stealing
and fraud.
He was sentenced
to 10-year imprisonment for the first three counts and five years for each of
the last three which included impersonation, obtaining property by falsehood
and collusion.
Falola, who ruled that Ighodalo deserved the
jail term, held that the convict used the phone to obtain N500, 000 from the
Owa of Ilesa, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran, while he obtained N200, 000 from Mr
Shengen Rahman, an associate of the governor.
The jail term, which Falola pronounced will
run concurrently, means that Ighodalo will spend the next 10 years behind bars.
Assistant principal state counsel, Mr Biodun
Badiora, told the court that the convict had served six-year imprisonment in
Ikoyi prison custody in connection with a murder case in 2005.
Counsel to Ighodalo, Mr. Ameachi Ngwu, prayed
the court to commit him to community service, stressing that the convict should
not be incarcerated but rather be placed where people could see him as a
convict.
From a moral point
of view do you think he deserves the charge?
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