MAN SENTENCED TO 45 YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR STEALING GOVERNOR AREGBESOLA’S N50,000 PHONE

For stealing a N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone belonging to Governor Rauf
Aregbesola, a 31-year-old Kelvin Ighodalo has been sentenced to
45-year imprisonment 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.

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