A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday sentenced a 35-year-old labourer, Shaibu Abas, to three months imprisonment for stealing a cell phone worth N64, 000.
Abas, a resident of Utako area, Abuja, had pleaded guilty to two-count charge of joint act and stealing levelled against him.
The judge, Mr Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict N15,000 option of fine and warned him to be of good behaviour and desist from committing crimes after serving out his punishment.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Mrs Auhioboh Florence, had informed the court that on March 16, one Victor Ubasi of No. 5 Adeyinki Adeoti Crescent, Wuse 2 Abuja, reported the case at Utako Police Station.
Florence said that the complainant parked his car opposite a beer parlour at Wuse 2, whiles the convict and his accomplices, now at large, forcefully opened the car and removed the item.
She said the accused and his gang stole a Tecno cell phone, valued at N64, 000 and ran away.
The prosecutor said that the convict was arrested and he confessed to have sold the cell phone at N18, 000, to one Destiny at Wuse market.
Florence said that the item was yet to be recovered and the offences contravened Sections 79 and 288 of the Penal Code
Source: Today Nigeria
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