A Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, on Thursday, sentenced a scavenger, Shehu Abubakar, to three days community service for stealing three steel bars.
Abubakar, who lives in Kasuwan dare, Gwagwalada, pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal trespass and theft.
Magistrate Yusuf Ibrahim sentenced Abubakar, who had been in police custody since Aug. 13, to three days community service to run for two hours every day.
Ibrahim ruled that the sentence was without an option of fine, adding that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to others that would want to be involved in criminal acts.
“I gave him that sentence because he has pleaded for leniency, has spent some days in police custody, the items have been recovered and he is a first time offender”, he said.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Abudullahi Tanko told the court that the complainant, Umar Dannufawa, of phase I Gwagwalada, reported the matter at the police station on Aug. 13.
Tanko said that the defendant trespassed into an MTN mast located at phase I Gwagwalada and stole three steel bars.
He said that during police investigation, the convict confessed to the crime and the steel bars were recovered from him.
The prosecutor said that the offences contravened the provision of Sections 342 and 287 of the Penal Code
