Court orders dispatch rider to clean Abuja court for 4 days
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Wuse, Abuja, presided over by Magistrate Ekpeyong Inyang, has ordered a 23-year-old man, Victor Daniel, to clean the court’s premises for four days for stealing. Inyang ordered Daniel to spend three hours daily doing the community service and to pay the complainant, one Mr Christian Maneke, N750,000 as compensation. […]
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A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Wuse, Abuja, presided over by Magistrate Ekpeyong Inyang, has ordered a 23-year-old man, Victor Daniel, to clean the court’s premises for four days for stealing.
Inyang ordered Daniel to spend three hours daily doing the community service and to pay the complainant, one Mr Christian Maneke, N750,000 as compensation.
He added that failure of the defendant to pay the compensation, the convict would serve seven months in the correctional centre.
Daniel is standing trial for conspiracy and theft, for which he pleaded guilty and begged the court for mercy.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Donatus Abah, told the court that the complainant reported the matter at the FCT Police Command on March 26. (NAN)
Abah said the complainant’s company, Swifta Logistics Express Services Limited, employed Daniel as a dispatch rider and entrusted him with one Avatar motorcycle for the job in March.
He said that Daniel criminally conspired with one Timothy Jerry and sold the motorcycle at N400,000. (NAN)