A 27-year-old man, Ejiro Tega, has been sentenced to 14 months in a correctional centre for stealing phones from prostitutes in Lagos.
Magistrate Elizabeth Adeola slammed the sentence following Tega’s guilty plea to a two-count charge of stealing and breach of the peace.
The magistrate who did not give Tega an option of fine, held that he should serve the jail term with hard labour.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp Kenrich Nomayo, told the court that Tega took two prostitutes, Blessing Joseph and Victoria Joseph, on September 7, 2021, to a hotel at Mafoluku, Oshodi, and stole their phones: a Tecno POP worth N63,000 and an Infinix Hot 10 worth N85,000.
He explained that, “The defendant took the prostitutes to the hotel on the pretext of having a nice time with them. He booked a room for them and told them to go and refresh, and while they were refreshing he stole their phones.”
He added that Tega conducted himself in a manner likely to cause breach of the peace.