A Magistrates’ Court in Minna, Niger State, on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old man, Abdullahi, to one month in prison for stealing eight tubers of yam from a Police officer’s farm.
Magistrate Binta Rijau sentenced Abdullahi, after he had pleaded guilty and begged the court for leniency.The Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Thomas Peter, told the court that the complainant, Insp. Ibrahim Auta, arrested the defendant on September 15.
Peter said the defendant stole eight tubers of yam from the farm of rtd DIG Usman Yakub in Tutungo Area, Paikoro local government area. The prosecutor, thereafter, prayed the court to try the defendant summarily, in line with Section 157 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
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