Abuja – A Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced a 24-year-old scavenger, Suleiman Kadiri, to four weeks imprisonment for stealing.
Magistrate Fatima Bukar sentenced Kadiri of no fix address after he pleaded guilty of stealing laptop and 50 litres of petrol from the Ghanaian Embassy.
Bukar, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N 10,000.
Prosecutor Solomon Ojo told the court that one Johnson Adeyemi of Ghana Embassy reported the case at the Central Police Station, Abuja, on Dec. 20.
Ojo told the court that the convict entered the embassy through the fence and stole laptop and petrol kept for the generator.
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He added that the convict also stole one bag of rice from the embassy store.
The prosecutor said the security guard on duty apprehended the convict on his way out.
He said that the offence contravened Section 287 of Penal Code.
The convict, however, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, saying it was his first time of stealing.
He also said that he was hungry and had no job to do. (NAN)
