A Gudu Upper Area Court in the FCT on Friday
sentenced a 25-year-old man,Obioma Ozokwe,
to seven strokes of cane and cleaning of court
toilet for stealing N250,000 worth of cables.
Ozokwe pleaded guilty and was convicted on a
two-count charge of criminal trespass and
theft.
The Upper Area court judge, Mr Umar Kagarko,
cautioned the convict to desist from a life of
crime and to learn a trade.
The Prosecutor, Mr Gabriel Ayana, had told the
court that Gbenga Agani of Apo Resettlement
reported the matter at Apo Police Station on
Oct. 24.
Ayana said that the complainant reported that
Ozokwe trespassed into his building site and
stole armoured cables valued N250,000.
“The cables belonged to the residents of the
area who kept them in the site for safety,’’
Ayana said.
He also said that during police investigations,
the stolen armoured cables were recovered in
the convict’s possession.
The prosecutor said the offence contravened
sections 348 and 251 of the Penal Code.
Elsewhere, a Katsina State High Court in
Malumfashi has sentenced a 28-year-old
farmer, Yusuf Umar, to 10 years imprisonment
for raping 13-year-old hawker.
The trial judge, Justice Abbas Bawale,
convicted Umar after he was found guilty of
unlawfully having carnal knowledge of one
Salima Nuhu of the same address on April 13,
2014.
Umar is from Ketare village in Kankara Loca
Government Area of Katsina State.
Delivering judgment, Bawale said the
prosecution had successfully established the
charge beyond reasonable doubt as required
by law.
The judge, however, said he had taken into the
consideration the ill health of the convict,
being a cancer patient in his judgment.
He said the punishment for the offence under
section 283 of the penal code law attracted a
maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
The judge said the lead prosecution Counsel,
Mr Aminu Garba, had led four witnesses and
three exhibits, including the medical report on
the victim.
He sentenced the convict to 10 years
imprisonment without option of fine to serve
as deterrent to others.
The convict, who was not represented by a
counsel, defended himself during the trial.
The convict had lured the 13-year-old into his
house on the pretext of buying mangos from
her and forcefully had sexual intercourse with
her.
The case was first mentioned on Dec. 17,
2015.
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