A Zuba Magistrates’ Court in Abuja, sentenced a 27-year-old labourer, Bashir Sule to two years imprisonment for stealing a motorcycle.
Sule who resides in Area 1, Zuba, Abuja, had pleaded guilty to a charge of theft levelled against him
The convict after his guilty plea begged the court for leniency.
The Magistrate, Abdulazeez Mohammed sentenced the convict without an option fine.
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Mohammed also advised Sule to be of good behaviour and shun a life of crime after serving his jail term.
He said the punishment would have been stiffer if the convict had not saved the court the rigour of protracted prosecution.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Mr Chinedu Ogada told the court that the complainant, Mr Salisu Wada of Tungamaji Abuja, reported the matter at the Zuba Police Station on Feb. 21
Ogada said that on Feb. 12, the complainant took his Bajaj motorcycle valued N 380,000 to a car wash located at Tungamaji for washing.
He said the convict criminally and intentionally made away with the said motorcycle, without his consent and sold it for N100,000 to unknown person and converted the money to his personal use.
The prosecutor said during police investigation, the convict made a confessional statement
He said that the offence contravened Section 287 of the Penal Code.
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