Baale’s son bags 17-year jail term

A Somolu Magistrate's Court has
sentenced a 22-year-old man, Taiwo
Jinadu, to 17 years in prison.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Jinadu is the
son of the Baale of a community in
Bariga.
According to the police prosecutor, ASP
Adegoke, the accused robbed one
Mutairu Idris of a Nokia phone, valued at
N13, on Olokodana Street on September
13, 2013, in the Bariga area of Lagos
State.
Jinadu was also accused of stealing
N110, 000 and attempting to kill Idris
during the operation.
Jinadu was further accused of
discharging bullets and damaging the
house of one Pa Mutairu Oluwole at 22,
Ososa Street, vandalising property worth
N55,000 during the robbery operation.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the accused
was arrested at a joint in a raid by
policemen attached to Bariga Division.
Our correspondent learnt that it was
during investigation that the police
discovered Jinadu's true identity.
The accused was charged with seven
counts of armed robbery, attempted
murder and malicious damage.
The charges read in part, "That you,
Taiwo Jinadu, and others at large on
September 13, 2013, around 9pm, at a
spot along Olokodana Street, in front of
Standard Hotel, Bariga, Lagos, did steal
one Nokia phone valued N13, 500,
property of one Mutairu Idris (male),
and thereby committed an offence
punishable under Section285 of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria
2011.
"That you, Taiwo Jinadu, in the
aforementioned magisterial district did
attempt to kill one Mutairu Idris, and
thereby committed an offence
punishable under Section 228 of
Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria,
2011.
"That you on the same date, time and
place did unlawfully threaten the lives of
Idris Mutairu, Idris Kareem, Pa Kushimo
Mutairu Oluwole and Serifat Lukman,
the occupants of 22 Ososa Street,
Bariga, by discharging loaded firearms
and damaging their residential house
and thereby committed an offence
punishable under Section 56(1) (a) (b)
(2) of Criminal Law of Lagos State
2011."
Jinadu pleaded guilty to the seven
charges.
The magistrate, Mrs. B.O Osunsanmi,
sentenced the accused to 17 years in
Ikoyi Prison.
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