An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 23-year-old applicant, Henry James, to four months imprisonment without an option of fine.
Senior Magistrate Asmau Akanbi handed down the jail term after the convict pleaded guilty to stealing of a telephone handset.
Akanbi, however, ordered that his co-accused Gabriel Eleso, 20, and Uche Obinna, 20 be remanded in prison after they pleaded not guilty to the same charge.
The accused persons were charged with joint act and theft, which the police prosecutor, Cpl. Silas Nanpan, said were reported to the police on March 8, by one Solomon James of Nyanya Village, Abuja.
Nanpan said that while the complainant was taking a nap at Nyanya, the accused attacked him and stole his handset valued at N7, 500 and also stole N3,000 cash from him.
He said that when they were arrested, they confessed to the crime, adding that the offence contravened Sections 79 and 288 of the Penal Code.
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