A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Jos, the Plateau State capital, has sentenced a 20 year-old trader, Abubakar Sani, to one year imprisonment for stealing seven wheelbarrows.
Magistrate Shawomi Bokkos sentenced Sani after he pleaded guilty to theft on Thursday, June 20, 2024.
The prosecutor, Inspector Ibrahim Geokat, told the court that the case was reported at the Laranto Police Station in Jos by the complaints, Adamu Ahmed and Babayo Mohammed, on May 11.
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The prosecutor said the convict stole the wheelbarrows worth N417,000 and sold them to one Babangifa Mohammed, now at large.
The offence, according to him, is punishable under the Plateau state Penal Code Law.
The magistrate, therefore, sentenced Sani to one year imprisonment with a fine option of N20,000.
Bokkos also ordered the convict to pay N400,000 compensation to the complainant.
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