Sunday Omisakin, a middle-aged man and one of the ex-convicts granted state pardon by Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke on December 24, 2024, has been remanded in the Ilesa Correctional Centre by an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing a plasma television.
Omisakin, listed as number 8 among those pardoned, reportedly returned to crime on January 3, 2025. He allegedly broke into a house in the Iludun area of Osogbo and stole a plasma TV valued at ₦600,000.
According to a charge sheet obtained by our reporter, the charges against him read:
COUNT I: “That you, Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m,’ on the 3rd day of January 2025 at about 12:00 pm at Al-Medinat Area, Iludun, in the Osogbo Magisterial District, did break into the house of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’ and steal one Plasma TV valued at Six Hundred Thousand Naira (₦600,000:00k) only.”
COUNT II: “That you, Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m,’ on the same date, time, and place, in the aforementioned Magisterial District, did steal one Plasma TV valued at Six Hundred Thousand Naira (₦600,000:00k), property of Shittu Damilare ‘m’.”
The alleged offences are said to contravene and be punishable under Section 411 (1) (2) of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol. II and Sections 383 and 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol. II, Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2002.
Omisakin, upon his first arraignment on January 7, applied for bail. However, Magistrate A. Adeyeba adjourned the matter to January 10 to rule on the bail application.
In the prosecutor Kayode Adeoye’s submission, he requested the defendant be remanded, and the Magistrate ordered Omisakin to be held at the Ilesa Correctional Centre pending the next hearing.
