Two farmers, Hassan Augustine, aged 55, and Felix Balogun, aged 47, were sentenced to two weeks of community service by a magistrates’ court in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, on Monday.
The sentence was for the unlawful possession of Nigerian Army uniforms. Magistrate O. W. Dosumu ordered the community service to be carried out at the new court complex in Oke Eda, Akure, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. daily.
The conviction was based on the farmers’ admission of guilt and the prosecution’s successful presentation of evidence against them.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp Adeboye Adesegun, had informed the court that the convicts were caught with the uniforms at Wese Camp, Ipele, Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State.
According to him, the convicts could not give a satisfactory account of how they came about the uniforms when they were arrested.
The prosecutor, who tendered the convicts’ confessional statements and the army uniforms as exhibits, asked the court to sentence the farmers accordingly.
Adesegun added that the offences contravened sections 516 and 428 (a) and (b) of the Criminal Code Cap 33, Volume 1, Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.
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