Old habits die hard is a saying that has turned real for a 46-year-old driver, Olanrewaju Fakunade, an ex-convict who is going to spend the next four years behind bars for a repeat stealing offence.
The prison is not a new environment for Fakunade. He was serving time at the Agodi Correctional Facility in Ibadan, Oyo State for running foul of the law when luck smiled on him in January. He was granted amnesty and set free by former Oyo State Chief Judge, Justice Munta Abimbola.
Fakunade subsequently got a job as a driver with a private employer.
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But in a twist, an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan has sentenced unrepentant Fakunade to another four years in jail for stealing his employer’s vehicle and pharmaceutical drugs worth N7.5 million.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr. S. H. Adebisi, jailed Fakunade after he pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing.
Adebisi said the convict should spend four years at Abolongo Correctional Facility with hard labour to serve as a deterrent to others intending to commit such crime.
The Prosecutor, Opeyemi Olagunju, a police inspector had told the court that Fakunade committed the offences with some others still at large on June 14 at Neimeth International Pharmaceutical Plc in Ibadan.
Olagunju said the defendant stole the company’s Toyota Corolla car with registration number AKD 503 NN which was loaded with pharmaceutical drugs.
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“The drugs were worth N3,480,000 and the vehicle worth N4 million the property of Mr. Shedrack Onafor.
“He was later arrested along Old Ife Road and by then he had sold the drugs,” the prosecutor said.
Olagunju said the offences contravened Sections 516 and 390 (9) of the Criminal Law of Oyo State, 2000.
