Crime
Osun pastor goes to jail for stealing goat, turkeys
Magistrate Adijat Oloyade of the Osun State Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo, on Thursday, convicted the pastor of a Cherubim and Seraphim Church located on the Baruwa Estate, Osogbo, Solomon Opaalade, for stealing a goat and turkeys.
Opaalade, who was arraigned on five counts bordering on stealing, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for three of the counts.
When he was arraigned on July 15, 2019, Opaalade was accused of stealing nine turkeys and a goat sometimes in March, 2017.
In the course of the trial, the prosecution team led by Adekunle Adeniyi from the state Ministry of Justice, told the court that Opaalade stole nine turkeys and a goat belonging to Oluwasegun Hammed.
The prosecutor called five witnesses and presented two turkeys and charms recovered from Opaalade as well as a statement written by the defendant.
Oloyade, in her judgment, found the defendant guilty of three of the five counts.
Oloyade subsequently sentenced the cleric to 18 months’ imprisonment on each of the three counts, or an option of paying N10,000 fine for each of the counts.
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