A Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, on Thursday sentenced a 30-year-old man, Ibrahim Rasak, to 10 years’ imprisonment for tampering with electric cable.
Rasak was arraigned before Justice Babs Kuewumi on Dec.9, 2024, on a charge of tampering with an electric cable, to which he pleaded guilty.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Kuewumi found Rasak guilty as charged and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment.
He said the sentence would serve as a deterrent to others.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Mr Samson Osobu, said that the convict and others at large, committed the offence on Oct. 29, 2024, in Ikere-Ekiti.
He said the convict tampered with, disconnected and damaged an electric cable used for transmitting and supplying electricity to Ado-Ekiti and its environs.
He added that the convict confessed to the crime and took the police to the damaged transformer.
The prosecutor said that the offence was punishable under Section 10 of Miscellaneous Offences Act, Cap M17, Volume 8, LFN, 2004.
To prove his case, Osobu called one witness, Insp Ilori Tope, who gave oral evidence, and tendered the electric cable and some parts of the transformer as exhibits.
He also tendered the convict’s confessional statement, recorded on a flash drive.
