A Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Friday sentenced a 30-year-old man, Magaji Hallai, to three months in a Correctional Centre for stealing goods worth N170, 000 .
The Senior Magiistrate, Hajiya Fauziya Sheshe, sentenced Hallai after he pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing.
Sheshe, howeve, gave the convict an option to pay N10,000 as fine.
She also ordered him to pay N170,000 as compensation to the complainant or face 12-month jail term.
“The convict shall also sign a bond to be of good character in the sum of N50,000 with one surety. He has 30 days to appeal the judgment,” she said.
Earlier, the Prosecutor,Mr Ibrahim Muhammad, told the court that the defendant committed the offence August at Gama Quarters Kano.
Muhammed said that the defendant broke into the vehicle of the complainant, Alhaji Inusa of Gama Quarters Kano and stole some items.
Muhammad listed the stolen items as five caps, four pairs of shoes, 15 yards of shadda and material,12 yards of Toyobo and one wrapper all valued N170,000.
He said the offence contravened Section 287 of the penal code.
Edited By: Edith Bolokor/Bayo Sekoni (NAN)
