Days after gaining Governor’s Pardon, Osun ex-convict rearrested for stealing Plasma TV

A former inmate was apprehended again for theft, specifically stealing a Plasma TV, just eight days after being pardoned by the state Governor.

Sunday Omisakin was identified as one of the ex-convicts granted state pardon by Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke on December 24, 2024.

He has been remanded in the Ilesa Correctional Centre by an Osogbo Chief Magistrates Court, sitting in Osogbo, for stealing a plasma television set eight days after he was set free.

The osun ex-convict was eighth on a list of pardoned individuals.

He returned to crime on January 3, 2025. Omisakin broke into a residence in the Inudun Area of Osogbo and stole a plasma TV valued at N600,000.

One of the charges filed against Omisakin reads;

“That you Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m’ on the 3rd day of January 2025 at about 12:00 pm at the Al-medinat Area, Iludun in the Osogbo Magistrarial district did break and entered the house of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’ and steal one Plasma TV valued the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (N600,000:00k) only.”

COUNT II reads

“That you Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m’ and on the same date, time and place in the Aforementioned Magisterial District did Steal one Plasma TV valued the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (#600,000:00k) only property of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’.”

He was said to have committed offences contrary to and punishable under Section 411 (1) (2) of Criminal Code Cap 34 vol.Il and Section 383 and punishable under 390 (9) of Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.II laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002. Upon his first arraignment on January 7, he applied for bail, but Magistrate A. Adeyeba adjourned the matter till January 10 to rule on the bail application.

In his ruling, the prosecutor, Kayode Adeoye ordered that the defendant be reminded in the Ilesa correctional centre