Magistrate Farouk Ibrahim-Umar, sentenced them after they pleaded guilty.
The accused also collected the complainant’s motorcycle for hire purchase to pay N200,000, but he only paid N 18,000 and criminally absconded.
The federal government introduced the NHF scheme to enable contributors, mostly civil servants, to secure flexible loans to build their own houses.
Police authorities in Taraba confirmed the attacks, also declaring one soldier missing.
The defendant killed the siblings – two minors and an adult – on January 13, at 5.00 p.m., at the Oke-Orogun area of Saki, Oyo.
The defendant who pleaded not guilty is accused of destroying the fruits after he refused to transport them to Lagos.
The judge handed down the light sentence after the convict pleaded guilty to
the charge and begged the court for leniency.
