A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, on Thursday sentenced a 30-year-old farmer, Abu Bitrus to six months in the Correctional Center for stealing his friend’s motorcycle, worth N240,000.
The police charged Bitrus of Paiko Gwagwalada, FCT, with theft.
The Chief Magistrate, Ibrahim Shafa, sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty and begged for leniency.
The convict had told the court that his friend gave him the motorcycle to use and return, but he ran away with it and converted it for his own personal use.
Shafa said that the sentence was without an option of a fine.
The magistrate in his judgment said that the convict had shown his wickedness to his friend and needed to be punished.
He said that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to other thieves who specialized in snatching people’s motorcycles.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Mr. Dabo Yakubu, told the court that sometime in November 2020, the convict stole one black unregistered Bajaj motorcycle at Dikko in Niger.
Yakubu said that the motorcycle valued at N240,000 belonged to one James Danjuma of Dikko, Niger.
He said that the convict was arrested while in possession of the said motorcycle at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada.
The prosecutor said that the offense contravened the provisions of Section 287 of the Penal Code.
(NAN)
