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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has kicked against the three-year imprisonment of a 28-year-old car mechanic, Akeem Jimoh, who was convicted for stealing yams worthy N35,000 successful Osun State.
The African Examiner writes that Akeem was convicted and sentenced connected Wednesday by an Osogbo Chief Magistrate Court aft helium pleaded blameworthy to the one-count complaint of theft helium was accused of.
Asked wherefore helium committed the act, Jimoh stated that helium stole the 17 tubers of yams due to the fact that of hunger, and asked for mercy.
The presiding Magistrate, Muibah Olatunji, sentenced the offender to 3 years imprisonment with hard labour and without immoderate enactment of fine.
Speaking concerning the development, stated that the sentencing argumentation successful the state needs accommodation to marque it much humane.
He was against wherefore scarce nationalist funds should beryllium wasted to instrumentality attraction of convicts jailed for petty offences similar that of Jimoh.
He said: “It is precocious clip that the sentencing argumentation of the state was made humane. Why should the authorities beryllium made to discarded scarce nationalist funds connected the feeding, accommodation, and aesculapian attraction for the convict who was jailed for stealing tubers of yams worthy N35,000?
“The attraction of judges and magistrates ought to beryllium drawn to the information that judicial officers successful capitalist countries person stated that it is nary longer a transgression for the mediocre to bargain nutrient to provender themselves and their household members.
“Meanwhile, we person briefed a lawyer to record an entreaty against the condemnation and the three-year jailhouse word of Akeem Jimoh.”
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