Judiciary
A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, convicted and sentenced a 24-year old man, Mohammed Obeka, to one year imprisonment for stealing a motorcycle belonging to a police corporal.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the police had charged the convict, who lives at Wurukum area of Makurdi, with theft.
The Police Prosecutor, Insp Godwin Ato, told the court that one Cpl Habila Paul, attached to Number 13 Squadron, Makurdi, had, on March 28, reported the matter to the Commissioner of Police in Benue.
Ato said that Paul explained that while sleeping in his room at Mobile Barracks, Adeke in Makurdi on March 28, Obeka came and removed his red-coloured Jin Cheng motorcycle to an unknown destination.
He said that the complainant further stated that he had gone round all the scrap dealers in Makurdi in search of the motorcycle without success, adding that it was his fourth motorcycle to be stolen.
The prosecutor said that the convict was arrested during police investigation and that he had confessed to the crime.
The offence, according to him, contravenes Section 288 of the Penal Code, Laws of Benue, 2004.
NAN reports that when the case came up, Obeka pleaded guilty to the charge against him and pleaded for leniency, saying that he was a first offender.
In her judgment, the Chief Magistrate, Mrs Roseline Iyorshie, sentenced Obeka to one year in prison without an option of fine. (NAN)
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