Trader bags one-year jail term for stealing seven wheelbarrows
A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 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.
The magistrate, however, gave the convict an option to pay N20,000 or spend six months in prison and also ordered him to pay N4000,000 compensation to the complainant or spend another six months in default.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Inspector Ibrahim Geokat told the court that the case was reported on May 11, at the Laranto Police station Jos by the complainants, Adamu Ahmed and Babayo Mohammed.
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.
(NAN)
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