An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a 40-year-old man, Yusuf Muhammed, to six months imprisonment for conversion of funds and breach of peace.
The Chief Magistrate, Dolamu Babalogbon, sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to the count of conversion of fund while pleading not guilty to second count of breach of peace.
Babalogbon sentenced the convict to six months imprisonment N240,000 to the complainant.
The convict, whose address was not provided, was facing a two-count charge of conversion of funds and breach of peace.
The prosecutor, Inspector Olubu Apata, had told the court that the convict committed the offence sometimes in the month of November 2025 in the Lekeleke area of Ado-Ekiti.
He said that Muhammed sold some provision items worth N240,000 and converted the money to his personal use. The provisions belong to one Isia Abdullahi.
Apata added that the convict also conducted himself in a manner likely to cause the breach of peace.
He told the court that the complainant gave his provision store to the convict to look after for him while he traveled but upon his return, the convict did not remit the money to him.
According to him, the offence contravenes Section 295 and is punishable under Section 302 and Section 181(d) of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021.
Man bags six months imprisonment for stealing of N240,000