The Zuba Magistrates’ Court in Abuja has sentenced a 27-year-old labourer, Bashir Sule, to two years’ imprisonment for stealing a motorcycle.

Mr Sule, who resides in Area 1, Zuba, Abuja, had pleaded guilty to a charge of theft levelled against him.

The convict, after his guilty plea, begged the court for leniency.

The magistrate, Abdulazeez Mohammed, sentenced the convict without an option fine.

Mr Mohammed also advised Mr Sule to behave well and shun a life of crime after serving his jail term.

He said the punishment would have been stiffer if the convict had not saved the court from the rigour of protracted prosecution.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Chinedu Ogada, told the court that the complainant, Salisu Wada of Tungamaji Abuja, reported the matter at the Zuba Police Station on February 21.

Mr Ogada said that on February 12, the complainant took his Bajaj motorcycle valued at N380,000 to a car wash at Tungamaji for washing.

He said the convict criminally and intentionally made away with the said motorcycle without his consent and sold it for N100,000 to an unknown person and converted the money to his personal use.

The prosecutor said during the police investigation, the convict made a confessional statement

He said the offence contravened section 287 of the Penal Code.

(NAN)