A Yaba Magistrates’ court in Lagos, on Tuesday, sentenced a 33-year-old sales agent, Chima Osubor, to 3 years in prison for stealing a Volvo truck valued at N2 million from his principal.

Magistrate Oluwatoyin Ojuromi sentenced Osubor to 18 months imprisonment each on a three-count charge but, however, gave him an option to pay an N1.42 million fine to the complainant.

She ruled that the sentences would run concurrently.

The convict, who resides in the Shomolu area of Lagos, was arraigned on May 13, 2019, and had pleaded not guilty to a three-count charge of stealing, cheating, and criminal damage to property.

The prosecutor, Sgt. Godwin Oriabure told the court that the convict had committed the offenses sometime in May 2013, at No. 2b Salami Sauvignon str., in the Palmgroove area of Lagos.

According to him, Osubor, as an agent, had been given a Volvo truck with Registration No. YA 189 FKJ by the complainant, Mr. Remmy Okoro, to sell and remit the proceeds.

He said the convict had damaged the truck while driving it recklessly, after illegally converting it to his personal use.

Oriabure listed the damaged parts as; two windscreens valued at N55,000, two side mirrors valued at N10,000, two headlamps valued at N50,000, one front valve valued at N30,000, and one exhaust pot valued at N30,000.

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Other parts were; four-pointers valued at N10,000, one gas tank valued at N15,000, four tyres valued at N220,000, and a battery cover valued at N7,500, with a total value of N427,500.

The offenses, he said, contravened the provisions of Sections 285 (9), 337 (1), and 321 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised)