A 20-year-old trader, Abubakar Sani, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a Jos Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 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 N400,000 compensation to the complainant or spend another 6 months in default.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Ibrahim Geokat, told the court that the case was reported on May 11, at the Laranto Police Station Jos by Adamu Ahmed and Babayo Mohammed, the complaints.
The prosecutor said the convict stole the wheelbarrows worth N417,000 and sold them to one Babangida Mohammed, now at large.
The offence, according to him, is punishable under the Plateau state Penal Code Law. (NAN)
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