Trader handed prison sentence for stealing pair of slippers
A magistrate’s court in Jos on Thursday convicted and sentenced 22-year-old trader, Moses Baba, to six months at the correctional centre, for stealing slippers.
The magistrate, Irene Pati, sentenced the convict following his guilty plea to the charge preferred by the police.
The court, however, gave the convict the option of a N20,000 fine in lieu of the sentence.
The court also ordered the convict to pay N40,000 as compensation to the complainant.
The prosecutor, Daniel Damulak, told the court that the case was reported on January 19 at the Angol-Jos police station by one Nendirnma Boka, a nominal complainant.
He told the court that the convict went to the complainant‘s house and stole her slippers worth N40,000.
He said that the offence contravenes the provisions of the Plateau Penal Code Law.
(NAN)
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