Bricklayer Jailed For Stealing Two Packets Of Maggi (See Story)
A Lugbe Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday sentenced a 30-year-old bricklayer Jeopardy John, to three months detainment for taking two parcels of Maggi 3D shapes.
John, had conceded to a three-check of criminal trespass, housebreaking and robbery.
"I am sad for the demonstration I conferred and I am begging the court not to send me to imprison.
"It was yearning that made me to take. For quite a while I don't have work, please sir excuse me, and I guarantee not to take once more,'' the convict argued.
The judge, Mr Garba Ogbede, be that as it may, sentenced John to three months in jail yet with a choice of installment of N15,000 fine.
Ogbede additionally requested that the recuperated things be come back to the proprietor.
As indicated by the judge, the discipline would have been more extreme on the off chance that he had not conceded, and spared the court the torments of a drawn out indictment.
Prior, the indicting counsel, Miss Vivian Oporomo, had told the court that on July 12, Eneojo John of the same location, reported the matter at the Iddo Police Station.
Oporomo told the court that the convict broke into the complainant's shop at around 1.30am and stole two parcels of Maggi blocks, esteemed N700 and one DVD player esteemed N10, 000.
She said that when the complainant got the convict inside his shop with the said things, he raised an alert.
Oporomo said that amid police examination and cross examination, the convict confessed to submitting the offense.
The prosecutor said the offenses contradict segments 342, 347 and 288 of the Penal Code.
The convict was however not able to pay the N15,000 fine and was taken to Kuje Prison.
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John, had conceded to a three-check of criminal trespass, housebreaking and robbery.
"I am sad for the demonstration I conferred and I am begging the court not to send me to imprison.
"It was yearning that made me to take. For quite a while I don't have work, please sir excuse me, and I guarantee not to take once more,'' the convict argued.
Ogbede additionally requested that the recuperated things be come back to the proprietor.
As indicated by the judge, the discipline would have been more extreme on the off chance that he had not conceded, and spared the court the torments of a drawn out indictment.
Prior, the indicting counsel, Miss Vivian Oporomo, had told the court that on July 12, Eneojo John of the same location, reported the matter at the Iddo Police Station.
Oporomo told the court that the convict broke into the complainant's shop at around 1.30am and stole two parcels of Maggi blocks, esteemed N700 and one DVD player esteemed N10, 000.
She said that when the complainant got the convict inside his shop with the said things, he raised an alert.
Oporomo said that amid police examination and cross examination, the convict confessed to submitting the offense.
The prosecutor said the offenses contradict segments 342, 347 and 288 of the Penal Code.
The convict was however not able to pay the N15,000 fine and was taken to Kuje Prison.
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