Hungry Lagosian Bags Community Service For Stealing Pot of Soup

                              A Somolu Magistrates' Court in Lagos State on Monday sentenced a 28- year-old man, Abiodun Ojedokun, to six days of community service for stealing a large pot of soup worth N8,000 at Onipanu Model Market in Somolu.

Ojedokun was arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy, burglary and stealing. He pleaded guilty to all the charges and asked for leniency, claiming that he committed the offence because he was starving

The Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, sentenced the convict to 48 hours of community service for each of the three-count charge, after he had pleaded guilty to them...