Teenagers jailed nine months for stealing police officer’s phone
A Lugbe Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced two teenagers, Abdulrahman Abubakar and Yunusa Umar, to nine months’ imprisonment each for stealing a police officer’s cell phone.
Messrs Abubakar and Umar, aged 18, labourers and residents of Aya, Abuja, had pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. They begged for leniency.
The judge, Aliyu Kagarko, however, gave each teenager an option of N30,000 fine.
He warned them to desist from crime.
Mr Kagarko also ordered the teenagers to pay N 7,000 as compensation to the owner of the phone.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Stanley Nwaforaku, told the court that the complainant, Sgt. Sidi Ibrahim arrested and brought the teenagers to the Asokoro Police Station on December 28.
Mr Nwaforaku said that at 7:30 p.m. on the same date, the teenagers and one other person at large stole the phone.
The prosecutor said that during police interrogation, the teenagers could not give a satisfactory account of themselves.
He said the offences contravened sections 79 and 287 of the Penal Code.
(NAN)
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