The Police in Osun State have arrested and arraigned one Sunday Omisakin for allegedly stealing a plasma television set in the state.
Omisakin was dragged before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates Court, sitting in Osogbo for the alleged offence.
Omisakin is number 8 on the list of ex-convicts granted state pardon by Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke on December 24, 2024.
He had been earlier convicted for simple offences but got a state pardon alongside Segun Olowookere and Sunday Morakinyo, both sentenced to death for armed robbery and stealing of foul in Oyan, Osun State.
However, according to a charge sheet used to arraign Omisakin and obtained on Tuesday, he returned to crime on January 3, 2025, breaking into a house in the Inudun Area, Osogbo, and stealing a plasma TV worth N600, 000.
The charge partly read, “That you Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m’ on the 3rd day of January 2025 at about 12:00 pm at the Al-medinat Area, Iludun in the Osogbo Magisterial district did break and entered the house of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’ and steal one Plasma TV valued the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (#600,000:00k) only.
“That you Adebayo Omisakin Sunday ‘m’ and on the same date, time and place in the Aforementioned Magisterial District did Steal one Plasma TV valued the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (#600,000:00k) only property of one Shittu Damilare ‘m’.”
He was said to have committed offences contrary to and punishable under Section 411 (1) (2) of criminal code cap 34 vol.Il and Section 383 and punishable under 390 (9) of Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.II laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.
Upon his first arraignment on January 7, he applied for bail, but Magistrate A. Adeyeba adjourned the matter till January 10 to rule on the bail application.
The prosecutor, Kayode Adeoye, had opposed the bail application, and in his ruling on the application on January 10, Adeyeba declined it and remanded the defendant in Ilesa Correctional Centre.
Ex-convict caught with human skull in Ogun burial ground
Also, the Ogun State Community, Social Orientation, and Safety Corps, otherwise known as So-Safe Corps, has apprehended 54-year-old Adelani Oriyomi at a burial ground in Kere, Obada-Oko, Abeokuta, Ogun State, while allegedly attempting to exhume a human skull.
This was disclosed in a press statement issued on Tuesday by the Commander of So-Safe Corps, Soji Ganzallo, through the office of the Director of Information and Public Relations of the Corps, Assistant Commander Moruf Yusuf.
Ganzallo said, “At about 2:35 a.m. on January 21, 2025, officers of the So-Safe Corps on routine patrol observed suspicious activity on a parcel of land behind a church.
“The suspect, identified as 54-year-old Adelani Oriyomi, was spotted trying to hide.
“Once the coast seemed clear, he resumed digging the tomb to allegedly retrieve a human skull. However, the officers returned to the scene, apprehending him before he could escape.”
The statement revealed that the suspect, a resident of Kere, Obada-Oko in Ewekoro Local Government Area, confessed to the crime during interrogation.
He was said to have admitted that on January 18, 2025, he had exhumed a skull from a tomb on a plot of land behind his residence.
Oriyomi reportedly confessed that he was attempting to retrieve another skull to complete the number required for a money ritual preparation known as ‘Osole’ when he was caught.
The suspect was also said to have confessed to being a serial offender, having sold nearly ten skulls in the past.
Oriyomi, during the interrogation, also explained that he had previously been arrested for similar offences committed at Ado-Odo and served two years of imprisonment and a further six years and nine months at the Oba Correctional Centre following another conviction in Obada-Oko.
Ganzallo confirmed that the suspect and the recovered exhibit—a fully dried human skull—have been handed over to the Nigeria Police Force, Obada Divisional Headquarters, for further investigation and possible prosecution.
The So-Safe Corps Commander urged community leaders to thoroughly screen tenants and visitors to prevent harbouring undesirable individuals.
He emphasised that such vigilance could ensure 70% of home security, with the remaining 30% relying on alertness to external threats.
Source: the pointing.com
