4th December, 2024
By Patience Yakubu
A teenager identified as David Jonah has been sentenced to 30 days imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to stealing a he-goat before a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court.
The police charged Jonah with two count of trespass and stealing.
Earlier, the Prosecution, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that one Samson John reported the matter at the station on Nov. 29.
According to Leo, the defendant went into the complainant’s compound while he was at the farm and stole his he-goat worth N65,000.
He said the defendant was caught by a neighbour who saw him coming out of the compound with the goat.
Leo said the offence contravened the provisions of Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017.
The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, sentence Jonah after he pleaded guilty and begged the court for leniency.
He however gave the convict an option of N10,000 fine and warned him to desist from crime.
Emmanuel further advised the convict to focus on his studies or learn a trade, as the court will not be lenient with him next time.
(NAN)
