Man, 22, jailed 4 years for stealing transformer parts

A Lagos State Chief Magistrates’Court in Badagry, has sentenced a 22-year old man, Annex Salisu to four years imprisonment for stealing and vandalising transformer parts

The Chief Magistrate, Nurudeen Layeni, sentenced Salisu after he pleaded guilty to the two-count charge of felony and stealing preferred against him.

Layeni said the convict would serve the jail term at the Badagry Correctional Centre.

During trial, the prosecutor, ASP Edet Ekpo told the Court that Salisu committed the offences at about 9.30p.m on July 28, 2025, at Church-Gate, along Badagry Expressway.

Ekpo said that Salisu stole and vandalised transformer cables, cover and nuts valued N10 million, belonging to Century Dye and Chemical Ltd.

He said that offences contravened Sections 287, 173, 175 and 235 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015.