A 21 year old Man, Babangida Abdullahi, has been convicted and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for the offence of theft contrary to section 279 of Adamawa state penal code law.
The chief magistrate court I sitting in Yola, Adamawa state capital presided by Abdullahi Muhammed Digil, sentenced the "Shila" boy after he pleaded guilty to the offence.
Babangida of Bauchi street in Yola North LGA, was earlier arraigned before the court for the alleged offence: "criminal conspiracy and theft" contrary to sections 60 and 279 of penal code.
The convict and tricycle operator was arrested and charged before the court following a report by one Mohammed Suleiman of the same street who had his Tecno phone L9 plus stolen by the convict and 2 others (now at large).
Mohammed reported to the police that on the 5th April, 2022 the convict conspired with 2 others and stole his phone valued N31, 000 when he boaded his tricycle from Zaranda street to Bauchi street.
He narrated thus, " I found out that my phone was stolen when I got down from the tricycle at Bauchi street", and strongly suspected the trio.
It was after the plea of the convict that the prosecutor, ASP Zainu Abideen, applied for summary trial of the defendant in line with section 351 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law(ACJL).
The court granted the prosecutor's application and sentenced the defendant to 7 years imprisonment or pay alternative N200, 000, fine.
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