A 28-year-old trader, Moses Goodboy, was on Friday sentenced to three years imprisonment for stealing a Bajaj motorcycle worth N100,000.
Magistrate A.O. Soladoye of the Surulere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, who gave the judgment, did not give Goodboy an option of a fine.
She said that the gravity of the offence, whereby the accused threathened the complainant with a dagger to obtain the motorcycle, warranted the sentence.
Goodboy, who was living in Ilaje area of Ebute Meta, had pleaded guilty to a count charge of theft.
The Investigation Police Officer (IPO), Sgt. Evelyn Eguebor, who held brief for the prosecutor, told the court that the accused committed the offence in January at Ilaje village in Lagos.
She said that Goodboy flagged down one Sikiru Olaiya, the owner of the Bajaj Motorcycle with Reg. No. QF164KJA and asked him to drop him at Ilaje, in Ebute Meta West.
Eguebor said Olaiya who did not agree on the price Goodboy offered, left him to Ilaje to wash his motorcycle, where the accused sighted him and started beating him.
“The accused started beating the complainant and also stabbed him with a dagger,’’ the prosecutor said.
Olaiya also gave evidence in court: “I was washing my motorcycle when Goodboy approached me and started beating me up.
“ It was when he brought out a dagger to stab me that I left the motorcycle and ran for my life,’’ Olaiya told the court.
The prosecutor said the accused took the motorcycle and disappeared from the scene.
The offence, she said, contravened Section 285(10) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State.
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