Trader jailed for swindling customers
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Jos on Thursday sentenced a 40-year-old trader, Nancy Vincent, to 18 months’ imprisonment for swindling her customers of N177,000.
The judge, Simi Drenkat, sentenced Ms Vincent after she pleaded guilty to the offence.
She gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N40,000.
Ms Drenkat also ordered the convict to pay N184,000 as compensation.
Prosecution counsel Patrick Williams told the court that the case was reported on January 2, at the ‘B’ Division Police Station by Pheobe Jatau, Margaret Yohanna and Esther Alexander all complainants.
The prosecutor said the convict deceived the complainants into giving her N177,000 to buy yams and rice.
The offence is punishable under sections 29 and 307 of the Plateau Penal Code Law.
(NAN)
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