Scavenger bags 6 months jail for stealing 3 plastic chairs, tomatoes

A Grade 1 Area Court, Kubwa, on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old scavenger, Yusufa Idris to six months imprisonment for stealing plastic chairs and tomatoes. Idris admitted committing the offence and begged for leniency. The Judge, Mohammed Marafa, however, gave Idris an option of N15, 000 fine and warned him to desist from committing crime. The […]

A Grade 1 Area Court, Kubwa, on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old scavenger, Yusufa Idris to six months imprisonment for stealing plastic chairs and tomatoes.

Idris admitted committing the offence and begged for leniency.
The Judge, Mohammed Marafa, however, gave Idris an option of N15, 000 fine and warned him to desist from committing crime.

The Prosecutor, John Okpa, had told the court that one Aminu Mohammed of Kaduna State reported the matter at the Kubwa Police Station on Aug. 25.

He said Idris was caught along Arab Road, Kubwa, with three plastic chairs, one rubber bucket containing onions, tomatoes and a dead chicken‎.

Okpa added that the other items were a knife, hoe and an umbrella, which Idris confessed he stole from Gbazango area, Kubwa, Abuja.

He said the offence contravened Section 287 of the Penal Code. (NAN)