A 21-year-old Ibrahim Abubakar was on Monday convicted and sentenced to two months in prison by an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for stealing a phone and an international passport. The police prosecutor, Cpl. Francis Tanko, told the court that one Angulu Emmanuel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), reported Abubakar at the Wuse Zone 3 Police Station.
Tanko alleged that Abubakar committed the act at the Sheraton Hotel, Wuse Zone 4, Abuja. He told the court that the accused and others, who are now at large, went to the Ladi Kwali Hall of the Hotel and stole a Nokia Phone, valued at N56, 000 belonging to one Hammed Tanko. The prosecutor said that the convict and his colleagues also stole an international passport with No: A01138195 belonging to one Mohammed Bello.
The prosecutor said that the items were recovered from the accused. After arraignment, Abubakar pleaded guilty to the charge. He told the court that he went to the hotel to eat with his friends and he saw the phone on the ground and picked it up. ``I then put the phone in my pocket. Afterwards, someone raised an alarm that I was a thief. Please have mercy on me. I stole because of my sick wife,’’ he said.
In his judgment, Senior Magistrate Haminu Eri convicted and sentenced Abubakar to two months in prison on each count charge of joint act and theft contrary to Sections 79 and 287 of the Penal Code Law. Eri, however, gave an option of fine of N500 on each count and also warned the convict to desist from bad acts and be of good character.
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