AN Iyaganku Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, sentenced 22-year-old Kola Gbolahan to two months imprisonment for stealing a generating plant valued at N34, 000.

Kola, who pleaded guilty to the theft, prayed for mercy from the presiding judge, Mrs S. Oyediran.

According to the charge, the prosecutor, Inspector Sunday Ogunremi, said Gbolahan, stole a yellow-coloured Elepac SV 3000 gasoline generator valued at N34, 000 from Akintoye Emmanuel, on June 4, 2011, at about 5.00 a.m. at 36, Agric, Olomi area of Ibadan.

The offence, according to the prosecution, was contrary to and punishable under section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap 30, Vol. II Laws of Oyo state of Nigeria , 2000.

According to the facts presented by the prosecutor, Gbolahan was stopped by policemen on patrol who saw him standing by the road side at Olomi with the generator on the fateful day.

Suspicious of his movement and the object in his possession, the policemen approached him and asked him where he was going.

Confronted with the charge, Kola, who said that he was running a barbing shop, simply admitted he committed the offence and pleaded guilty.

The Magistrate then ordered that he be imprisoned for two months.

Upon pleading for leniency and prostrating in the dock, Mrs Oyediran tempered justice with mercy and gave Kola an option of fine in the sum of N5, 000