Court jails student for 6 months for stealing N40,000
Posted by Veronica Dariya | 27 December 2019 | 270 times
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Area Court in Dutse, Abuja on Friday sentenced Aliyu Musa, a 24-year-old
student to six months imprisonment for stealing N40, 000 with a stolen ATM
card.
The
Presiding Officer, Mr Suleiman Mohammed, who tried and found Musa guilty
however, gave him an option to pay N30, 000 as fine.
Mohammed
held that the convict failed to give the court a reasonable explanation why he
committed the crime.
He also
ordered that the money confisticated from the convict by the police be returned
to its owner.
The convict,
who resides in Ushafa area of Bwari was convicted of Joint act and theft.
He pleaded
guilty.
Earlier,
the prosecutor, Mr Tunde Arowolo told the court that the convict was reported
at the Bwari Police Station by one Emmanuel Anyade, a businessman in Ushafa
village, Bwari, on Dec.14.
According
to Arowolo, the convict went to the complainant’s shop where he operated mobile
money transactions through POS and withdrew N40, 000 from a first bank account
belonging to one Amadi Ogechi.
“He also
returned the next day to withdraw another N20,000 from the same account when
the owner of the shop asked him to produce an identity card that
correspondended with the account.
“He failed
to do that and was thereby arrested.”
The
prosecution added that during police investigation, the convict also confessed
to the crime but said that he was sent by one Musa Maiwake who is presently at
large, to withdraw the money and take it to him at Maraba in Nassarawa state.
The
prosecution noted that the act, contravened sections 79 and 287 of the penal
code. (NAN)
Source: News Express
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