Guard jailed 14 months for stealing armoured cables
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, sentenced a 35-year-old security guard, Shehu Abdullahi, to 14 months imprisonment for stealing armoured cables worth N380,000.
Mr Abdullahi was arraigned on a one-count charge of stealing.
The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, sentenced Abdullahi after he pleaded guilty to the offence and begged for leniency.
Mr Emmanuel also ordered Abdullahi to pay N380, 000 as compensation to the complainant, Jamilu Kamal.
He advised the convict to desist from committing crime, adding that the sentence would serve as deterrent to other would be offenders.
The prosecutor, Inspector Chidi Leo, told the court that the accused committed the offence on July 21, at about 11p.m at Ungwan Sarki, Kaduna.
He said that the accused, being a security guard, stole armoured cables valued at N380, 000 property of J&J Farm Produce.
According to him, the offence contravened the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017.
(NAN)
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