Labourer gets 12 strokes for stealing electrical materials

A Zuba Upper Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered that a 21-year-old labourer, Marvellous Faruna, be given 12 strokes of the cane for stealing electrical materials. The judge, Gambo Garba, also sentenced Faruna who pleaded guilty to housebreaking and theft and begged the court for leniency to six months imprisonment. Garba, however, gave the convict […]

A Zuba Upper Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered that a 21-year-old labourer, Marvellous Faruna, be given 12 strokes of the cane for stealing electrical materials.

The judge, Gambo Garba, also sentenced Faruna who pleaded guilty to housebreaking and theft and begged the court for leniency to six months imprisonment.

Garba, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N10,000, and warned him to desist from committing crime.

He also ordered the convict to pay N200,000 as compensation to the complainant.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Chinedu Ogada, told the court that the complainants, Adene Ojo and Adene Olu all of Anagada Green Garden Area Abuja reported the matter at the Zuba Police station on August 3.

He said the convict and one Israel Ibrahim, now at large, broke into the complainant’s house and stole electrical materials worth N200,000. He stated that during police interrogation and investigation, the convict confessed to the crime but all efforts to recover the items from him failed.

The prosecutor said the offence contravened sections 97, 354 and 288 of the Penal Code. (NAN)