Plateau carpenter jailed 30 months for cheating groom-to-be
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Gokwat said the convict was given N500,000 to make a set of chairs and a bed frame in preparation for the complainant’s wedding. He said that Ali collected the money and disappeared .
By Zainab Oyekan
a 42-year-old Jos carpenter, Ado Ali has been sentenced to 30 months imprisonment for failure to deliver a set of chairs and a bed frame for a groom-to-be despite collecting N500,000 to make the items.
Ali was jailed after he pleaded guilty at Jos Magistrates’ Court where he was arraigned on Monday.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Ibrahim Gokwat told the court that the case was reported at the “A” Division Police Station on March 22, by one Kenneth Chollom, the complainant.
Gokwat said the convict was given N500,000 to make a set of chairs and a bed frame in preparation for the complainant’s wedding.
He said that Ali collected the money and disappeared .
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened the provisions of Section 421 of the Penal Code Law of Plateau.
The Magistrate, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to cheating.
Delivering judgment, Bokkos however, gave the convict an option to pay N50,000 as fine.
She also ordered him to pay N600,000 as compensation to the complainant.
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